Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1 North Brancepeth colliery, Tudhoe Colliery, Deerness Valley
Railway. Castle Eden Colliery. Cockfield Fell Royalty. Creation dates: 1855-1870 Extent and Form: 228 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans, 1855 - 1870 Pages 229-278 BLANK Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/1 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content North Brancepeth Colliery 4 letters between Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst and J.W. Swinburne Esq containing reports and valuations including details of leases, sections of seams and quantity and value of available coal, 13 - 17 March 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/23 Creation dates: 1866 - 1868 Physical characteristics: Plans 60 x 70cm. Scope and Content Tudhoe Colliery Reports by Thomas E. Forster to William Elliott Esq and John Rogerson re ventilation with recommendations re methods, notes on current workings by G.B. Forster, sketch plan of workings in Harvey Seams, no scale, and plan of workings in Bockwell Seam, scale 2ch: 1", 29 Dec 1866 - 10 Nov 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/53 Creation dates: c. 1855 Scope and Content Deerness Valley Railway Book of reference giving descriptions of property, owners, lessees and occupiers of lands through which the intended railway will run, nd. c. 1855 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/82 Creation dates: nd. c. 1855 Scope and Content List of County Durham enclosure awards, some dated Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/139 Creation dates: 1 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Request by R.S. Johnson for a report with particular reference to drainage, for Castle Eden Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/141 Scope and Content Proposed terms for leases of the Castle Eden and Haseldon Royalties to William Cook for 42 years from 2 Feb 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/146 Creation dates: 6 May 1870 Scope and Content Memoranda of agreements to extend the area of coal into Black Hall and Haseldon Estates Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/150 Creation dates: 1869 - 1870 Scope and Content Accounts of coal produced and sold and working charges, for Castle Eden Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/182 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Estimates of working charges Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/188 Creation dates: 25 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Report on the best method of draining the colliery, by Benjamin Dawson, for Castle Eden Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/190 Creation dates: nd. c. 1870 Physical characteristics: Plan coloured, 90 x 84cm. Scope and Content Specifications and tenders for the supply of a steam pumping engine by A. Stansfield Rake, for Tangye Bros and Holman, P. Wallan, for Black, Hawthorn and Co and Garrett Marshall and Co with detailed drawing of front and side elevations of steam pumping apparatus at Castle Eden Colliery, scale ¾": 1', 30 Aug - 16 Sept 1870 Plan of Castle Eden, Hardwick, Heselden and Black Halls Royalty, giving boundaries of royalties leased and acreages, scale 30ch: 1", 35 x 50cm Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/203 Creation dates: 27 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Report by John Taylor and G.B. Forster recommending measures for draining and pumping and re the extension of the royalty areas, CASTLE EDEN Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/207 Creation dates: 23 Oct 1867 Scope and Content Report re the possibility of mining further coal on Cockfield Fell with recommendations for further trials, by William Armstrong Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/211 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Plans 98 x 55cm and 54 x 30cm. Scope and Content Plan based on 6" O.S. map of the Cockfield Fell area marking possible seams and dykes and a proposed branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and section of the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Gibsnesse, horizontal scale 8ch: 1", vertical 80ft: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/213 Scope and Content Terms and conditions proposed for a lease of Cockfield Fell Coal Mines to Messrs Bouch and Partners for 42 years from 1 Jan 1868. Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/278 Physical characteristics: Coloured, 48 x 84cm. Scope and Content Plan of steam pumps at Adelaide Colliery, Bishop Auckland giving dimensions of cylinders, scale ¼": 1', nd Plan of [a steam pumping engine] by Black Hawthorn & Co, Engineers, Gateshead, scale ¼": 1', nd |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2 Northop Estate and Dublin Colliery. St Andrews Auckland
Detached Plots, Shildon Lodge Colliery, Long Cleugh Lead Mine, Albion
Mine, Nova Scotia. Creation dates: 1852-1870 Extent and Form: 117 pages Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans, 1852 - 1870 Pages 1-43 refer to Northop Estate 1860-1867 Pages 75-83 refer to Auckland St Andrews 1870 Pages 113-118 refer to Shildon Lodge Colliery 1869 Pages 123-127 refer to Long Cleugh Mine 1852-1869 Pages 129-167 refer to Albion Mines, Nova Scotia 1863-1869 Pages 44-72, 88-112 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/1 Creation dates: 1860 Scope and Content Lease from Messrs William Hancock, James Hancock and others to Messrs John Bailey, Robert M. Shipman and others of coal under lands at Northop, 1 Jan 1860 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/24 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Coloured 41 x 73cm and 72 x 60cm Scope and Content A and B, 2 plans of parts of the Northop Estate showing estate boundaries, scales 2ch: 1" and 3ch: 1", nd Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/25 Creation dates: 13 July 1866 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas L. Cottingham to Joseph Rowley Esq at Northop Hall Colliery re prospects for Dublin and Northop Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/26 Creation dates: 13 July 1866 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas L. Cottingham to Joseph Rowley containing a report re the Dublin Mineral Property including details of seams, amount of available coal, working conditions, adjoining properties and estimate of working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/32 Creation dates: 21 July 1866 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas L. Cottingham to Joseph Rowley containing valuation of the Dublin Mineral Property Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/33 Creation dates: c. 1866 Physical characteristics: 90 x 102cm. Scope and Content Plan of Dublin Colliery, parish of Northop belonging to Messrs Ridby and Hanock, showing the Hollin Hill workings, giving acreages marks old pits and fault lines, scale 2ch: 1", nd Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/35 Creation dates: Aug 1867 Scope and Content Report for Messrs Richardson and Co re Northop Hall and Dublin Collieries including details of leases, acreages, details of seams, transport and results of borings with estimates of available coal and profits and valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/43 Creation dates: c. 1866 Scope and Content Copy of plan NRO 3410/For/3/2/33 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/75 Creation dates: 20 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Letter from R. Bowser to T.E. Forster Esq enclosing a plan (No. 1) of fields at St Andrews Auckland, the coal under which Mr Pease desires to purchase Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/77 Creation dates: 20 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Letter from R. Bowser to T.E. Forster Esq enclosing a plan (No. 2) of detached fields near Bishop Auckland, the coal under which Mr Heckells, on behalf of Sir C. Maclean, desires to purchase Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/79 Creation dates: [1870] Physical characteristics: 39 x 43cm. Scope and Content Plan No. 1, (referred to in NRO 3410/For/3/2/75) coloured to show land belonging to Mr Peacock and Rev H.A. Milton, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/81 Creation dates: [1870] Physical characteristics: 45 x 44cm. Scope and Content Plan No. 2, (referred to in 77 above) coloured to show land belonging to Miss and T. Peacock and R. Bowser, no scale, Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/83 Creation dates: 19 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to R. Bowser containing valuation of coal under the areas covered by plans 1 and 2 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/113 Creation dates: June 1869 Scope and Content Report for the assignees of T. and G. Marley including details of the lease, acreage, drainage, details of seams including amount of coal left in the Bockwell Seam and valuation of the coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/118 Creation dates: 18 June 1869 Scope and Content Minutes taking in preparing the report (NRO 3410/Fro/3/2/113) by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/123 Creation dates: 1852 Scope and Content Lease by William Ord Esq to Messrs Lee, Short, Clementson, Walton and Turner of Long Cleugh Mine lead mine, Whitfield, for 21 years from 1852 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/127 Creation dates: May - Oct 1869 Scope and Content Accounts Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/129 Creation dates: 13 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Letter from James Hudson to J.B. Foord re the amount of coal produced Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/131 Creation dates: c. 1868 Scope and Content Accounts including pay bills, 1868 and abstracts of working costs, 1863 - 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/136 Creation dates: c. [1868] Scope and Content Details of winding, pumping and locomotive engines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/140 Creation dates: 7 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Extract from a letter from R.H. Brown to J.B. Foord re accounts for the Sydney Mine Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/141 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Accounts for the Sydney Mines including pay bill, 30 June 1868 and wages costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/145 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Details of engines, horses and measurements of tubs at the Sydney Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/146 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Section of strata through D. Shaft, Sydney Mine Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/148 Creation dates: 25 July 1868 Scope and Content Extract from a letter from William Routledge to J.B. Foord re accounts for the Lingan Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/149 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Accounts for the Lingan Mines including pay bill, 30 June 1868 and wages costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/153 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Details of engines and horses at the Lingan Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/154 Creation dates: 25 July 1868 Scope and Content Estimate of costs of production costs for the Lingan Mines by William Routledge, manager Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/156 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Accounts for the Lingan Mines including pay bills, 30 June 1868 and wages costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/161 Creation dates: 12 Feb 1869 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to J.B. Foord Esq re the reasons for the increased working costs for the mines belonging to the General Mining Association with recommendations re the reduction of costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/163 Creation dates: 1866 Physical characteristics: 30 x 52cm. Scope and Content Section of strata from the Main Seam to the Deep Seam at Dalhouse Pit, scale 12': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/165 Creation dates: 1866 Physical characteristics: 30 x 117cm. Scope and Content Section of strata through the Forster Pit, Albion Mines, scale 12': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/167 Creation dates: 1868 Physical characteristics: 30 x 128cm. Scope and Content Section of strata through the Foord Pit, Albion Mines, scale 24': 1" |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3 Tyne Coal Co. Felling Colliery, Ryhope Colliery, Fishburn
Estate. Creation dates: 1831-1870 Extent and Form: 222 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans, 1831 - 1870 Pages 1 - 20 refer to Tyne Coal Company 1868 - 1869 Pages 49 - 79 refer to Felling + Tyne Main Collieries 1845-1868 Pages 113 - 145 refer to Ryhope Colliery 1863-1865 Pages 185 - 202 refer to Fishburn Estate 1831-1870 Pages 24-48, 89-112, 148-184 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/1 Creation dates: 7 Dec 1868 Scope and Content Letter from J.B. Simpson, Hedgefield, Blaydon to Messrs Forster, Son and Hurst requesting a report on the colliery operations of the Tyne Coal Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/2 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1868 Scope and Content Report re current workings, particularly drainage at Wallsend and Hebburn, including the installation of Cornish pumping engines at Wallsend with estimates of costs for further drainage work and estimates of working costs and staith and railway costs and list of abstracts of leases of collieries held by the Tyne Coal Co at Hebburn, Wallsend, Willington and Benton, by J.B. Simpson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/16 Creation dates: 30 Jan 1869 Scope and Content Notice of an extraordinary general meeting of the Tyne Coal Co. by R. Burdon Sanderson, chairman, to consider the issue of preference shares to increase the share capital of the company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/18 Creation dates: 18 Dec 1868 Scope and Content Minutes for a report by G.B. Forster re the engines at Wallsend G. Pit and at Hebburn Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/20 Creation dates: 20 Feb 1869 Scope and Content Report and recommendations re drainage of Wallsend and Hebburn Collieries by Thomas E. Forster, G.B. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/49 Creation dates: 1 April 1868 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From George Elliot to James Easton and George Baker Forster requesting a report Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/51 Creation dates: 27 April 1868 Scope and Content Minutes for a report including sections of seams and details of the workings 1846 - 1868, drainage measures and list of collieries on the Tyne, Percy Main, Tyne Main, Jarrow, Wallsend, Willington, Bigges Main and Hebburn with dates of cession of working and amount of water present Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/61 Creation dates: 16 May 1868 Scope and Content Report including amount of available coal, the re-opening of Hall Pit, working of pillars, drainage and conditions of tubbing with recommendations re drainage measures, by James Easton and G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/76 Creation dates: 9 April 1868 Scope and Content Minutes for the above report by G.B. Forster including sections of seams and numbers of hewers Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/79 Creation dates: 26 Nov 1845 Scope and Content Memoranda re workings in the High Main Seam under and near St. Peter's Docks, 1842 - 1845 and report to Messrs Smith re the causes of damage to the surface at St. Peter's Dock occasioned by a creep in the workings of the lessees of Gateshead Park Colliery, by Matthew Liddell, Benton Grange Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/113 Creation dates: 1864 Physical characteristics: Plan 32 x 41cm. Scope and Content Case re the application by John Taylor for an extension of the time allowed under the Coal Mines Act, 7 Aug 1862, for the provision of a second shaft, including extracts from the Act, minutes re the workings, sections of seams and notes re ventilation, section of the furnace drift showing circulation of air, no scale, and report by Thomas E. Forster, 28 June - 5 Dec 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/139 Creation dates: 1863 Physical characteristics: Plan coloured 56 x 94cm. Scope and Content Request by John Taylor for a report re the working of an outstroke to the east of Ryhope Colliery under the sea particularly re dangers from inundations of sea-water and the recommended thickness of the barriers with report including sections of seams, soundings and plan showing the extent of the workings and the barrier, scale 14ch: 1", 16 Nov - 12 Dec 1863 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/145 Creation dates: 2 Jan 1865 Scope and Content Valuation by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/185 Creation dates: 1864 Physical characteristics: Plan 70 x 102cm. Scope and Content Sale particulars including plan of the estate coloured to show the lots with reference naming lots, scale 4ch: 1", with particulars giving field names, state of cultivation, occupiers and acreages, to be sold 9 March 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/193 Creation dates: 1837-1842 Scope and Content Account of borings at Fishburn by George Stott, 1837 - 1838 and William Coulson, 1840 - 1841 at Trimdon Grange, n.d. Great Chilton, 1831 and Mr Armstrong's borings, 1842 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/202 Creation dates: 1870 Extent and Form: 2 copies 1 loose. Physical characteristics: Plans 30 x 50cm and 32 x 60cm. Scope and Content Correspondence between H.E. Briggs, Darlington and Thomas E. Forster re the valuation of the Belmont Ironstone Mines and the Fishburn Estates, including plan of East House, coloured to show freehold and leasehold land, and marking acreages, scale 6ch: 1" and plan of the Township of Fishburn, coloured to show land owners; no scale, 28 Jan - 21 March 1870 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4 The Earl of Glasgow v The Glengarrock Iron Co. Woodhall
Minerals. Creation dates: 1844-1869 Extent and Form: 126 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence, legal papers and plans, 1844 - 1869 Pages 3 - 49 refer to The Earl of Glasgow v The Glengarrock Iron Co. 1865 - 1868 Pages 72 - 146 refer to Woodhall 1844-1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/3 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Extracts from leases between the disputing parties, 4, 16 Aug and 27 Dec 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/26 Creation dates: 7 Dec 1867 Scope and Content Statement of queries re leases Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/33 Creation dates: 1867-1868 Extent and Form: 6 letters Scope and Content From Tods, Murray and Jamieson to Thomas Forster requesting an opinion re the case, 7 Dec 1867 - 17 Jan 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/37 Creation dates: nd.[c.1868] Physical characteristics: 78 x 92cm, LITHOGRAPHED Scope and Content Plan of the Dalry, Kilburne and Glengarnock Mineral Fields showing the Black-Band Ironstone workings, coloured to show areas under which workings lie and boundaries of areas leased, by W. and A.K. Johnson, Edinburgh, scale 900': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/39 Creation dates: nd.[1868] Extent and Form: 2 plans Physical characteristics: 25 x 36cm and 30 x 40cm Scope and Content Of the Black-Band Ironstone workings at Kilbirnie, showing underground workings, scale 200': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/49 Physical characteristics: 58 x 60cm. Scope and Content Sections of borings in Glengarnock and Kilbirnie before and after Whitsunday 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/72 Creation dates: 1835 Physical characteristics: 44 x 58cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Woodhall Estate, Bothwell, Lanark reduced from an original plan of 1811, giving field names and acreages, coloured to show lessees of minerals, scale 10ch: 1", by Andrew Henderson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/73 Creation dates: 20 May 1844 Scope and Content Terms for a lease between W.F. Campbell Esq of Islay and Alison, Merry and Cunningham of Carnbrae of minerals under Woodhall Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/75 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 25 x 40cm. Scope and Content Sketch section of part of the Woodhall Mineral Field, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/76 Creation dates: 1848 Physical characteristics: 45 x 62cm. Scope and Content Plan of Woodhall Estate, coloured to show the boundaries of the farms, giving farm names and acreages, scale 10ch: 1" Report re the minerals under the Woodhall Estate including sections of strata and quantity and valuation of coal produced, by William McCreath, 18 June 1863 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/94 Creation dates: 4 Jan 1865 Scope and Content Report re mineral workings for the year ending Martinmass 1863, including details of production, by William McCreath Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/101 Creation dates: 1864 - 1866 Scope and Content Report as above Martinmass 1864, Whitsunday 1866, 28 June 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/108 Creation dates: 14 Aug 1866 Scope and Content Supplementary report as above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/109 Creation dates: 19 May 1868 Scope and Content Letter from Merry and Cunningham to the Woodhall Estate Co re the exhausted state of the minerals in the estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/110 Creation dates: 25 June 1868 Scope and Content Report on the proposal by Merry and Cunningham to give up their lease, by James McCreath Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/113 Creation dates: Feb 1859 Scope and Content Letter from James Brown to Messrs Merry and Cunningham re mineral workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/114 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Physical characteristics: 40 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Woodhall Estate, coloured to show section let to Messrs Merry and Cunningham, giving dimensions of pumping engines, scale 14ch: 1" Letter from James McCreath to Thomas Forster describing the property and mineral workings of Merry and Cunningham, 13 Aug 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/118 Creation dates: 3 - 17 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Correspondence between Messrs Merry and Cunningham and Charles Pearson, manager of the Woodhall Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/123 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Submission by Merry and Cunningham and the Woodhall Estate Co re the giving up of the lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/127 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Objections to Messrs Merry and Cunningham being allowed to give up their lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/129 Creation dates: Jan 1869 Scope and Content Remarks re the Woodhall Mineral Estate including sections of seams, amount of available coal and ironstone and management of the colliery, with estimate of the quantity of coal still to be worked in the central portion of the estate, by Dodd and Bailes Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/146 Creation dates: 1868 - 1869 Scope and Content Statement by Messrs Merry and Cunningham of their case that the minerals are exhausted and of their desire to give up their lease with responses from the Woodhall Estate Co, with statement of accounts for 1868, 1 March 1869 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5 Colliery Rating Valuation for Probate, Egton Estate, Eston
Gypsum. Creation dates: 1844-1871 Extent and Form: 100 pp Scope and Content Volume of valuations, reports, correspondence and plans, 1844 - 1871 Pages 1 - 30 refer to valuations for Rating 1865 Pages 69 - 96 refer to valuations for Probate 1844-1871 Pages 140 - 153 refer to Egton Estate 1863-1868 Pages 176 - 178 refer to Eston Gypsum 1868 Pages 32-68 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/1 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Seaton Delaval Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/4 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Seghill Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/6 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Seaton Burn Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/8 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Dudley Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/9 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Cramlington and Shank House Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/10 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/11 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content West Cramlington Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/12 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Bedside Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/14 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Cowpen Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/16 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Walker Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/17 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Backworth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/18 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Killingworth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/19 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content East Holywell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/20 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Gosforth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/21 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Letter from Moses Pye to the Newcastle Daily Journal re colliery rating, 7 Nov 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/22 Creation dates: nd.[1865] Scope and Content Valuation of the Blyth and Tyne Railway and proportionment of the value between the various townships Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/27 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Valuation of the Tynemouth section of the North Eastern Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/30 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Valuation of the Berwick section of the North Eastern Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/69 Creation dates: 31 May 1844 Scope and Content Humble Lamb Esq in Haswell and Shotton, Percy Main, Backworth and Earsdon, West Cramlington, East Holywell, West Townley, Elswick and Fenham and Grand Lease Coal, by Thomas Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/75 Creation dates: 24 Aug 1846 Scope and Content Thomas Taylor in Backworth and Earsdon, West Cramlington, East Holywell, Holywell, Shilbottle, Haswell and Shotton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/81 Creation dates: 1854 Scope and Content William A. Clavering Bart, part of the estate of Sir Thomas Clavering Bart, d. 1794, in Greencroft, Iveston, Causey and Woodhouses, by Thomas Forster, 27 Nov 1854 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/83 Creation dates: 13 Oct 1854 Scope and Content The executors of the late Sir Thomas John Clavering in Greencroft, Iveston, Andrews House and Jarrow Grange Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/85 Creation dates: 7 Feb 1859 Scope and Content William Standish Carr Standish in Cocken, Ludworth and Duxbury, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/87 Creation dates: 29 March 1865 Scope and Content William Cory in Haswell and Shotton, by Messrs Forster and Boyd Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/89 Creation dates: 1 April 1868 Scope and Content William Cory in Ryhope, Haswell and Whotton, by Thomas E. Forster and John Taylor Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/92 Creation dates: 20 Nov 1868 Scope and Content Hugh Taylor in Haswell and Shotton, Ryhope, East Holywell and Shilbottle, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/96 Creation dates: 6 Feb 1871 Scope and Content Colonel Maude in Backworth, West Cramlington, Haswell and Shotton and Ryhope, by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/140 Creation dates: 4 Oct 1863 Scope and Content Report to Willoughby Rackham Esq re the ironstone deposits in Egton Estate and proposed terms for leases of 100 acre plots of the estate for 63 years Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/148 Creation dates: 4 July 1868 Scope and Content Report by Thomas E. Forster and G.B. Forster to Willoughby Rackham Esq containing report and valuation of the minerals in the Egton Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/153 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Calculations re the valuation of the Egton minerals Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/176 Creation dates: 18 March 1868 Scope and Content Letter from J.J. Smith and Samuel Fredrick Okey to G.B. Forster containing a proposal for a lease of the gypsum under the estate of Lady Hewley, Eston Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/177 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Scope and Content Account of borings at Eston East Farm for Messrs Smith and Okey Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/178 Creation dates: nd.[1868] Physical characteristics: 25 x 35cm. Scope and Content Plan of land at Eston belonging to Lady Hewley's Charity marking boreholes, no scale, with reference to the above plan giving acreages |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6 Lawton and Harecastle Collieries, East and West Shirland,
Park End and New Fancy, Forest of Dean, Great Western and London Coal
Consumers. Creation dates: 1857-1870 Extent and Form: 253 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans. 1857 - 1870 Pages 3-37 refer to Lessees of Lawton and Harecastle Colliery and Others v. North Staffordshire Railway Co. 1866 Pages 75-92 refer to East and West Shirland Colliery 1866 Pages 113-215 refer to Parkend and New Fancy Collieries, Forest of Dean 1870 Page 255 refers to Great Western and London Coal Co. 1857 Pages 276-287 refer to Moseley Green Colliery, Forest of Dean 1867 Pages 38-72 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/3 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Observations re the effects of working the Banbury Coal Seam under the Trent, Mersey and Macclesfield Canal and Harecastle Colliery, including evidence by Messrs Elliot, Hewlett and Gilroy, 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/23 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Section of Lawton Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/28 Creation dates: 1 Oct 1866 Scope and Content Report re Lawton Pit including sections of seams, by John Taylor Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/33 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Physical characteristics: 40 x 54cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Banbury Coal Workings, Slappenfield Colliery, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/35 Creation dates: nd.[1866] Physical characteristics: 60 x 74cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in Slappenfield Pit, Harecastle Colliery, coloured to show different seams, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/37 Creation dates: 1864 Extent and Form: 86 pp Physical characteristics: Printed volume, inserted. Scope and Content Copy of the proceedings of the case between the lessees of Lawton and Harecastle Colliery v. the North Staffordshire Railway Co, 18, 19 Jan 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/75 Creation dates: 9 Aug 1866 Scope and Content Schedule of stock at West Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/83 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content Details of the extent of the royalties and of leases of East and West Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/88 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content Section of seams through Shirland coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/90 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content Description of the seams at Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/92 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content List of wages paid at Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/113 Creation dates: 29 March 1870 Scope and Content Statement of terms of a submission to arbitration between James Wood Sully and the executors of Thomas Wood Sully re the apportionment of shares Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/117 Creation dates: 21 April 1870 Scope and Content Correspondence re the appointment of arbitrators Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/118 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Report including sections of seams, amount of coal, working charges, details of engines and valuations of stock, 11, 13 May 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/154 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Sections of strata, table of specific gravities from the award map of Mr Thomas Sopwith and acreages of available coal in the Dean Forest Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/158 Creation dates: 19 May 1870 Scope and Content Details of employees, including list of names and their wages and materials used, by Walter Trotter Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/164 Creation dates: 1858-1869 Scope and Content Accounts of coal shipped and sold by landsale, salaries and working expenses, 1866 - 1869 and accounts of selling prices, 1858 - 1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/175 Creation dates: 3 Oct 1870 Scope and Content Report including details of leases, acreages, thickness of seams, transport costs, description of current workings, sections of seams and details of engines and valuations of coal, property and stock, by Joseph Cooksey Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/215 Creation dates: 3 Oct - 15 Nov 1870 Extent and Form: Report and two plans Physical characteristics: Plans 108cm x 134cm, and 30 x 18cm. Scope and Content Report including section of seams and valuation of the collieries including the Smith, Little Delf, Starkey, Rocky and Churchway High Delf Coal, with tables of coal sold, costs and profits and award by G.C. Greenwell re partnership agreement with plans showing colliery boundaries, scale 32ch: 1" and workings in the Smith Coal and High Delf Coal, marking surface features, scales 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/255 Creation dates: [1857] Scope and Content 3 provisional prospectuses of the company proposing mining in the Forest of Dean, giving prospects for the collieries and possibilities for coal distribution and transport costs, including plan showing the area between London and the Forest of Dean marking railway lines, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/276 Creation dates: March 1867 Scope and Content Report re Moseley Green Colliery including sections of seams, working costs and possible production of fireclay, by W.L. Goth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/279 Creation dates: 13 April 1867 Scope and Content Report re Moseley Green Colliery including details of tenure, section of seams, available coal, duration and profits, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/287 Creation dates: 13 April 1867 Scope and Content Letter from John R. Liddell to Messrs Gillespie and Swithenbank re the report 279 above |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7 Ulgham Grange, Chevington, Coldmartin Budle, Widdrington
Estate, Burradon, Shilbottle, Togston Stock. Creation dates: 1807-1871 Extent and Form: 219 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans, 1807 - 1871 Pages 1-41 refer to Ulgham, Chevington, Coldmartin & Budle 1854-70 Pages 77-119 refer to Widdrington 1854-1871 Pages 145-195 refer to Burradon and Coxlodge Collieries 1848-1863 Pages 213-262 refer to Shilbottle Colliery 1807-1869 Pages 282-299 refer to Togston Stock 1868-1869 Pages 42-72, 120-144 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/1 Creation dates: 1869 Scope and Content Sale particulars and plans for the following estates - Ulgham Grange, including mineral rights East and West Chevington Estate, including - Whitefield House, Woodside, Broomhill and Maiden's Hall farms, with mineral rights Coldmartin farm, parish of Chatton Budle Estate, parish of Bamburgh Particulars include field numbers, acreages and state of cultivation, descriptions of minerals and railway communications, with plans coloured to show lots and ground plan of Budle farm, scale. 10ch: 1" 1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/32 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Terms for a lease of part of Ulgham Grange Colliery from Earl Grey to Messrs Wood and King, 23 May 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/34 Creation dates: Aug 1854 Scope and Content Account of borings at Linton Lane, Ulgham Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/37 Creation dates: 17 Feb 1870 Scope and Content Minutes by Mr G.B. Forster re Ulgham Grange Colliery including section of the seam, estimated coal available and valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/39 Creation dates: 19 Feb 1870 Scope and Content Letter from G.B. Forster to E. Lawson Esq re Ulgham Grange Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/41 Creation dates: 17 March 1870 Scope and Content Newspaper cutting from the Newcastle Daily Journal re the sale of the above estates Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/77 Creation dates: 1854-1862 Scope and Content Accounts of borings at Widdrington, 1854, June - Dec 1855, 10 Feb. 1862 and 20 April 1860 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/90 Creation dates: 29th Nov 1865 Scope and Content Terms for a lease of part of Widdrington Royalty from Lord Vernon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/93 Creation dates: 1865-1866 Scope and Content Agreement to the above terms by A.H. Vernon and William Barkers junior, 28 Dec 1865 - 8 Jan 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/94 Creation dates: April - May 1866 Scope and Content Account of borings at Widdrington by G. Stott Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/95 Creation dates: 25 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Section of strata between the Top and Main Seams at Widdrington, by J.A. Ramsay Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/98 Creation dates: 6 Jan 1871 Scope and Content Note including the extent of the Royalty, sections of seams and hewing costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/101 Creation dates: 23 Jan 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster and George G. Greenwell to Lord Vernon re the valuation of the Widdrington Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/104 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Calculations re the amount of coal available Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/109 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 51 x 52cm. Scope and Content Plan of part of the Widdrington Estate belonging to George John Warren, Lord Vernon, showing farms, pits and bore holes, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/111 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 78 x 74cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Widdrington Estate belonging to George John Warren, Lord Vernon showing farms, pits and boreholes, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/113 Creation dates: 7 June 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Arnold W. White to G.C. Greenwell requesting a further report and valuation of the Widdrington minerals Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/114 Creation dates: 20 June 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster and G.C. Greenwell to Arnold C. White re the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/118 Creation dates: C.1871 Physical characteristics: Printed, bound in. Scope and Content Sale particulars and plans of the Stobswood Estate and minerals, particulars giving field numbers, acreages and state of cultivation and plan of estate, scale 7ch: 1" to be sold 20 July 1871 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/119 Creation dates: 6 Nov 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to Benjamin Bullock re the coal under the Stobswood Estate in relation to the Widdrington coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/145 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1848 Scope and Content Notes re Burradon Colliery including details of the lease, valuation of stock, engines, thickness of the seam and wayleave owners Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/146 Creation dates: 11 Sept 1848 Scope and Content Report re current workings at Burradon and the prospects for winning the Low Main Seam including details of the engines, extent of the royalty, available coal, estimated working costs, rents and wayleave rents and estimated profits, by Charles Carr Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/153 Creation dates: nd. [1848] Scope and Content Estimates for opening out the Low Main Seam and winning and working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/155 Creation dates: 31 March 1849 Scope and Content Notes re Burradon including extent of the royalty and working charges, Carr's Hartley Office Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/159 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Valuation of materials at Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/161 Creation dates: 1849-1850 Scope and Content Correspondence of Thomas E. Forster with Nicholas Wood and Charles Carr re the valuation of Burradon, 2 April 1849 - 1 Jan 1850 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/166 Creation dates: 1850 Scope and Content Estimates for sinking and working the Burradon Pit, 13 Jan - 11 March 1850 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/170 Creation dates: 9 April 1850 Scope and Content Report re the best method of working the Low Main Coal and whether to continue holding the High Main Coal at Burradon, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/171 Creation dates: nd.[1850] Physical characteristics: 45 x 65cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the Burradon Estate and surrounding estates of Killing-worth, Weetslade, Wideopen, Seaton Burn, Arcot and Seghill marking depths of boreholes and seams at various locations, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/174 Creation dates: 2 June 1863 Scope and Content Calculations re the amount of available coal at Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/176 Creation dates: 25 June 1863 Scope and Content Table giving numbers of employees and their wages at Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/177 Creation dates: C.1863 Scope and Content Measurements of air in the rolleyways, n.d Estimate of remaining coal and working costs for the High Main Seam, Coxlodge Colliery, July 1863 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/179 Creation dates: 11 July 1863 Scope and Content Table giving numbers of employees at Burradon with list of employees names Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/183 Creation dates: nd. [1863] Scope and Content Working costs for Burradon including rents and wayleave rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/185 Creation dates: 10 July 1863 Scope and Content Notes re current workings in Jubilee and Regency Pits and Coxlodge, including amount of available coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/186 Creation dates: 25 May 1863 Scope and Content Request of Joshua Bower for a report re Burradon and Coxlodge Collieries with report and current workings by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/189 Creation dates: 1 July 1863 Scope and Content Notes re Burradon Colliery including sections of seams, hewing costs and measurement of air by anemoneter Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/191 Creation dates: 10 July 1863 Scope and Content Details of wages paid and list of names of employees at the Regent Pit, Coxlodge (excludes hewers and putters) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/195 Creation dates: 10 July 1863 Scope and Content Details of wages paid and list of names of employees at the Jubilee Pit, Coxlodge (excludes hewers and putters) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/213 Scope and Content Section of strata in Northumberland north of the River Coquet, with details of the location of coal workings, borings made 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/220 Creation dates: 21 Feb 1862 Scope and Content Account of borings made at Beadnell, near the Lime Kiln Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/222 Creation dates: 1864 - 1865 Scope and Content Account of borings made at Shortridge House Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/225 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Section of strata in the Mountain Limestone in Northumberland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/232 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Section of strata in the Mountain Limestone between the Tweed and the Coquet Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/245 Physical characteristics: Printed map with manuscript additions. 55 x 62cm. Scope and Content Map of North Northumberland, coloured to show county boundary, railway lines, mountain limestone area and lines of strata referred to in 232 above, published by G.F. Cruchley, Map Seller and Glove Maker, Fleet Street, London, scale 2 miles: 1", n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/247 Scope and Content Report re Shilbottle Colliery including details of the lease, description of the pits, available coal production costs, selling prices, profits and valuation, for John Taylor Esq by Thomas G. Hurst 20 Feb 1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/254 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Notes including available coal, synopsis of seams, details of lease, production costs, dimensions of pumping engine and estimate of cost for a new winning Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/257 Creation dates: 1807 Scope and Content Section of strata sunk through in the Engine Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/258 Creation dates: 1846 Scope and Content Section of strata sunk through in the Working Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/259 Creation dates: 19 Jan 1869 Scope and Content Valuation of stock Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/261 Creation dates: 1864 - 1868 Scope and Content Abstract of working costs, by R. Bell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/262 Creation dates: 1867 - 1868 Scope and Content Abstract of working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/282 Creation dates: 10 Dec 1868 Scope and Content Valuation of stock, by R.P. Clark, valuer Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/294 Creation dates: nd. [c.1868] Scope and Content Valuation of stock by the Broomhill Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/299 Creation dates: 8 Feb 1869 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas G. Hurst to G.B. Forster re the valuation |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8 Pelton Colliery Report and Balance Sheets. Creation dates: 1791-1873 Extent and Form: 242 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, balance sheets and plans re Pelton Colliery, 1791 - 1873 Pages 97-115, 234-259 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/5 Creation dates: 5 Nov 1861 Scope and Content Letter from W.J. Hutchinson, for the Owners of Pelton Colliery to William Armstrong, requesting a report and recommendations for the more efficient management of the colliery with particular reference to possible mis-management Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/7 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1861 Scope and Content Report including the duration, working costs, with details of wages and colliery houses, winding engine costs, the winning of the Harvey Seam, saddlery, storekeeping, sale of landsale coal, duties of colliery workers including allegations of fraud against Messrs Temple and Wanless and recommended checks to protect the interests of the colliery, by William Armstrong Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/44 Creation dates: 8 July 1871 - 29 June 1872 Scope and Content Weekly Manager's reports and fortnightly abstracts of pay bills Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/116 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1861 - 4 Jan 1873 Scope and Content Detailed half-yearly balance sheets including debtors, creditors and valuations of property and stock Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/260 Creation dates: 18th Century Physical characteristics: 32 x 27cm. Scope and Content Plan of Pelton and Whitehall Commons with reference giving acreages of commons and various intakes and copyhold tenements in Urpeth, Pelton, Chester West Moor and Edmondsley Fell, original dated 1748, copy n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/262 Creation dates: nd. 18th Century Scope and Content Notes re the leases of lands on the plan NRO 3410/For/3/8/260, 1749 - 1792 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/263 Creation dates: nd.[18th century] Scope and Content Abstract of a lease of Flatts Colliery from the Bishop of Durham to Edward Montagu made 11 May 1771 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/266 Creation dates: Jan 1791 Scope and Content Report re Pelton otherwise Urpeth and White Hall Common Collieries including details of the lease, acreage, seams, old workings, current state of the workings and machinary and possible future prospects Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/275 Creation dates: 26 Feb 1825 Scope and Content Report re the current state of Pelton Colliery and the value of Mr Montagu's interest in the lease for lives, by John Buddle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/278 Creation dates: nd.[1868] Physical characteristics: 29 x 35cm. Scope and Content Plan of land at Flatts, Pelton to be sold by Stephen Wheldon to Henry Morton, giving acreages, type of tenure and surrounding owners Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/279 Creation dates: 16 Jan 1868 Scope and Content Agreement between 1. Stephen and Mary Ann Wheldon and 2. Henry Morton, for the sale of land at the Flatts, Pelton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/282 Creation dates: 25 Jan 1868 Scope and Content Letter from Mr Story to Mr Wooler re the above sale |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9 Newton Colliery, Wooley Colliery, Yorkshire, Adderbury Mines,
Banbury, Barlow Minerals, Kirklees Hall, Standish and Shevington
Collieries. Creation dates: 1859-1871 Extent and Form: 320 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans, 1859 - 1871 Pages 1 - 64 relate to Newton Colliery 1868-1870 Pages 77 - 151 relate to Wooley Colliery 1861-1871 Pages 159 - 181 relate to Adderbury Ironstone Mine's, Banbury 1870 Pages 222 - 263 relate to Barlow Minerals 1859-1868 Page 295 relates to Kirklees Hall 1865 Page 331 relates to Standish and Shevington 1865 Pages 195-222, 264-294 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/1 Scope and Content Lease by Thomas D. Bland Esq to Henry King Spark Esq of Newton Colliery, parish of Ledsham, for 42 years from 31 Jan 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/22 Creation dates: 5 July 1870 Scope and Content Valuation of plant Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/40 Creation dates: 15 July 1870 Scope and Content Letter from H.K. Spark to T.E. Forster re a report and valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/41 Creation dates: July 1870 Scope and Content Minutes including extent of the royalty, duration of the coal, description of old and current pits, working costs, sections of seams and railway and canal connections, lime works and workings of the Wheldale Coal Company and Allerton Bywater Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/49 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Section of strata at New Pit, Newton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/53 Creation dates: 4 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Report based on the minutes, 41 above with valuation, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/63 Creation dates: nd.[19th century] Physical characteristics: 64 x 82cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Warren House Seam at Newton Colliery, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/64 Creation dates: 28 Dec 1870 Scope and Content Agreement between Henry Currer Briggs of Saltburn and Henry King Spark of Darlington re the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/77 Creation dates: 16 May 1861 Scope and Content Memoranda by Mr Marsden and comments by Mr Woodhouse re the inundation of water Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/81 Creation dates: 1862 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and production costs, 18 Nov - 2 Dec 1862 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/82 Creation dates: 12 May 1863 Scope and Content Letter from James Hudson to G.B. Forster re the Barnsley Coal plan Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/83 Creation dates: 1863-1864 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and production costs, 29 Dec 1863 - 28 June 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/84 Creation dates: 13 - 27 Nov 1866 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and production costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/85 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Binding agreement for the Wooley Coal Company, not completed Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/86 Creation dates: 30 June 1869 - 30 June 1870 Scope and Content Accounts of working costs, coal produced and wages accounts Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/118 Creation dates: 30 June 1870 Scope and Content Minutes including section of the Barnsley Bed, description of the system of working by banks, rent accounts and accounts of coal produced and description of Wheatley Wood Pit including dimensions of the engines, section of seam and system of working the winter coal, by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/119 Creation dates: nd.[1870] Scope and Content Plan of [Wooley Colliery] marking seams, workings and proposed new winning and proposed railway, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/124 Creation dates: 30 June 1870 Physical characteristics: 70 x 41cm. Scope and Content Table of wages paid and notes re workmen at Wooley Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/126 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From John Marsden to Thomas E. Forster requesting a report re increased efficiency at Wooley Colliery, 18, 22 June 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/127 Creation dates: 27 July 1870 Scope and Content Report based on the minutes 118 above with recommendations re improved working methods, by G.B. and T.E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/134 Creation dates: 28, 30 July 1870 Scope and Content Letter from John Marsden re quantity of coal available with reply by Thomas E. and G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/135 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Scope and Content Section of the Cupola Shaft coloured to show strata with dates of sinkings, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/137 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Scope and Content Section of the Wheatley Wood Engine Pit coloured to show strata with dates of sinkings, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/139 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Scope and Content Plan of the incline plan for an endless rope, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/141 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Physical characteristics: 100 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Winter Bed, coloured to show different dates of workings, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/143 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 75 x 100cm. Scope and Content Plan and section of the water course drift, scale 50': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/145 Creation dates: 1870 - 1871 Scope and Content Notes re working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/149 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 90 x 130cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings by the Wooley Coal Company in the estate of Godfrey Wentworth Esq, copies by G.J. Burnley, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/151 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 100 x 145cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Barnsley Bed by the Wooley Coal Company in the estate of Godfrey Wentworth Esq, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/159 Extent and Form: 10 letters Scope and Content Between Gurney Pease at Darlington, Samuel Lloyd, at Birmingham and G.B.Forster re arrangements for Forster to make a report re the Adderbury Mines, 22 Aug - 23 Sept 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/170 Creation dates: 26 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Letter from G.B. Forster to Gurney Pease at Darlington re the reports on the Adderbury and Clattercotts Ironstone Workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/171 Creation dates: 26 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Report re Adderstone, Clattercotts and Burton Dasset Ironstone Workings including sections of seams, quantities of stone worked, working costs and amount of tallic iron extracted with proposal to build a wire rope tramway from Clattercotts to the Great Western Railway and to a proposed blast furnace at Fenny Compton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/178 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Letter to Edward Crewdon Esq re an agreement with Mr Lloy re the delivery of ironstone Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/179 Creation dates: 12, 17 Oct 1870 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From Samuel Lloyd to G.B.Forster, re the report on the ironstone mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/181 Creation dates: 14 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Minutes for the report 117 above including reports from furnaces re the quality of the ironstone, calculations re the best site for a blast furnace and sections of the proposed tramway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/222 Creation dates: 7 Feb 1868 Physical characteristics: 55 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Barlow Mineral area, coloured to show land leased by the Duke of Portland to Messrs John and William Fowler and adjoining lands of the Duke of Devonshire and the trustees of Mrs Smith, marks Monkswood, Nesfield and Cobnar Wood Collieries, coal and ironstone outcrops and mineral railways, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/223 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Instructions to T.E. Forster for a survey of the Barlow Minerals belonging to the Duke of Portland, with reference to an act of ejectment brought by the Duke against John and William Fowler, lessees, including terms of the lease, details of the alleged failure to conform to the conditions and accounts for mineral workings, 1859 - 1867, 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/239 Creation dates: 30 Nov 1866 Scope and Content Report re Cobnar Wood Colliery including dimensions of pits and pumping engines, quality and quantity of coal available and future prospects, including mortgage arrangements with ground plan of surface buildings, by G.C. Greenwell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/244 Creation dates: C.1868 Scope and Content Minutes re the Dunston and Barlow Minerals including the state of the workings for coal and ironstone and section of the Blackshale Seam Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/247 Creation dates: 29 Feb 1868 Scope and Content Report re the Dunston and Barlow Minerals with reference to the minutes 244 above and alledged failure to adhere to the conditions of the lease, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/253 Creation dates: 29 Feb 1868 Physical characteristics: 60 x 70cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Barlow Mineral area marking Nesfield Monkwood and Cobnar Wood Collieries with section of strata taken at various points on the plan, by R.G. Coke, Mining Engineer, Chesterfield, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/255 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Section of the Blackshale Ironstone at Tapton, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/259 Creation dates: March 1868 Scope and Content Section of the Blackshale Ironstone in Rough Piece Wood Openwork, taken at Point E on the surface plan, by R.G. Coke, Chesterfield, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/261 Creation dates: 22 Feb 1868 Physical characteristics: 46 x 46cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in Monkwood Colliery in the Blackshale Coal with table of quantities of coal worked and section of the seam, by R.G. Coke, Chesterfield, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/263 Creation dates: 1868 Physical characteristics: 60 x 105cm. Scope and Content Plan of Blackshale Ironstone Workings in Barlow, showing dates of working each section, with table of quantities worked, by R.G.Coke, Chesterfield, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/295 Creation dates: 27 March 1865 Scope and Content Report re Coal and Iron workings at Kirklees Hall, Hindley, West Leigh and Gidlow Lane including descriptions of the state and current workings of the collieries, duration of the coal, working charges, profits and valuations and description and valuation of the iron foundaries, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/331 Creation dates: 27 March 1865 Scope and Content Report re Standish and Shevington Collieries including amount of available coal, duration, working charges, selling prices and valuation, by Thomas E. Forster |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10 Shincliffe Hall, Chopwell Woods, Hamsterley, Smalls Estate,
Findon Hill Colliery. Creation dates: 1832-1872 Extent and Form: 196 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans, 1832 - 1872 Pages 3-13 relate to Shincliffe Hall 1867 Pages 27-41 relate to Chopwell Woods Royalty 1867-1868 Pages 64-71 relate to Hamsterley Royalty 1867 Page 103 relates to Smales Estate 1864 Pages 141-272 relate to Findon Hill Colliery 1832 - 1872 Pages 251-271 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/3 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 75 x 40cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings under [the Shincliffe Hall Estate], scale 4ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/4 Creation dates: 1866-1867 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From W.E. Wooler to Thomas E. Forster re an application by Mr Story for the purchase of coal under Shincliffe Hall Estate, 21 April 1866, 2 March 1867 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/6 Creation dates: 7 March 1867 Scope and Content Letters from Joseph Love to T.E. Forster enclosing a statement of the amount and value of Mr Prince's coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/8 Creation dates: 13 March - 3 May 1867 Extent and Form: 3 letters Scope and Content To T.E. Forster, 2 from W.E. Wooler and 1 from Joseph Love re the valuation of the coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/9 Creation dates: 1 May 1867 Scope and Content Letter from A. Story to W.E. Wooler Esq re the valuation of Mr Prince's coal at Shincliffe Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/10 Creation dates: 20 April 1867 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to W.E. Wooler Esq containing a report including valuation of Mr Prince's Royalty Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/13 Creation dates: 11, 21 April 1867 Scope and Content Sections of seams made by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/27 Creation dates: 11 April 1868 Scope and Content Report by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst including details of the lease, sections of seams, quantity of coal available, estimated profit and valuation of coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/32 Creation dates: 24 Feb 1868 Scope and Content Minutes including details of leases, synopsis of seams, estimated costs of a railway and wayleaves required Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/36 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Account of borings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/41 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Physical characteristics: 125 x 132cm. Scope and Content Plan of Chopwell Woods Estate and Plantations marking boreholes and the outcrop of the Brockwell three quarter and five quarter seams, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/64 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 32 x 32cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Hamsterley Estate, belonging to the trustees of R.S. Surtees, coloured to show area of surface operations, marking North Eastern Railway, Blaydon Branch, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/65 Creation dates: 19 Nov 1867 Scope and Content Minutes for a report re the Hamsterley Estate including details of the lease, sections of seams, boring reports, current workings at Top Busty, railway links, selling prices and duration and valuation of coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/71 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1867 Scope and Content Report containing information as 65 above, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/103 Creation dates: 1864 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Sale particulars and plans for the sale of the estate of the late Henry Smales Esq at Bickerton, Caistron, parish of Rothbury, Wheelbirks and Kipper Lynn, parish of Bywell St Peter, Colt Park and Broomhill, parish of Lanchester, Crossgate, Durham and Fishburn, parish of Sedgefield, containing plan of each estate giving acreages and reference giving field names and state of cultivation, to be sold, 6, 7 Sept 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/141 Creation dates: 10 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Report to Messrs Chartes and Youll including details of the lease, rents, shafts, engines, sections of seams, previous and current workings, workmen's housing, estimated future working costs and recommended borings, by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/148 Creation dates: nd.[1870] Scope and Content Abstracts of leases from John Hodgson Hinde from Holmes Jopling and others and from Edward Jopling Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/153 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 48 x 32cm. Scope and Content Plan of Findon Hill Colliery Royalty, coloured to show different owners, scale 3.156ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/155 Creation dates: nd. [1870] Physical characteristics: 60 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of Findon Hill and adjoining royalties coloured to show different owners, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/157 Creation dates: 3 Feb 1868 Scope and Content Lease from J.H. Hinde Esq to Messrs Pringle and Robinson of coal and fireclay under White House Farm, Witton Gilbert Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/172 Creation dates: 16 Feb 1867 Physical characteristics: Plan 25 x 18cm. Scope and Content Lease for 21 years from Messrs Jopling and others to Messrs Pringle and others of coal at Witton Gilbert including plan, coloured to show area referred to scale 6.312ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/187 Creation dates: 3 Dec 1869 Physical characteristics: Plan 25 x 16cm. Scope and Content Lease from Mr Edward Jopling to Mr W.J. Pringle and others of coal and fireclay at Witton Gilbert, including plan of the area leased, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/197 Creation dates: 13 Nov 1832 Physical characteristics: 74 x 56cm. Scope and Content Plan of Findon Hill and Potter Moor with other lands in the parish of Chester [le-Street], shows the area under which coal mines were leased by the Bishop of Durham to John George Lambton Esq, surveyed by Thomas Davison Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/211 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Account of borings at Findon Hill Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/217 Creation dates: 1852 Scope and Content Account of borings at Kepier Royalty near the old Engine Pit, by George Stott Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/219 Creation dates: 1861 Scope and Content Account of strata sunk through in Nettlesworth New Pit, by Samuel Coxon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/221 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/10/148 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/225 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Pay bill for 6 - 20 Aug 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/227 Creation dates: 6 - 20 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Pay bill for Main and Shield Row Seams Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/228 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Notes re wayleave rents at Findon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/229 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Queries re Findon addressed to T.G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/230 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Minutes including details of the leases, seams, engines, previous workings. working methods and estimated working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/234 Scope and Content Copy of report NRO 3410/For/3/10/141 above including copies of plans NRO 3410/For/3/10/153 and NRO 3410/For/3/10/155 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/241 Creation dates: 17 April 1871 Scope and Content Report to Findon Hill Coal Co including the discovery of a fault and drainage problems with recommended working methods, by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/244 Scope and Content Copy of plan NRO 3410/For/3/10/197 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/245 Creation dates: 5 May 1875 Scope and Content Report re Findon Hill Colliery including details of the lease, description of the seams, amount of available coal, description of the engine and pumps and transport, with recommendations for further work by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/272 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 36 x 47cm. Scope and Content Plan of property belonging to the late R.S. Surtees, no scale |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11 Elsecar, Seaton Moor, Rabbit Banks, Gateshead, Montague Main,
Acomb, Moseley Green, Dean Forest, Avon Valley, Glamorganshire, Team, Lord
Harewood's Sandstone Quarry, Pontefract, Greenhome Hematite, Norley
Hall. Creation dates: 1866-1873 Extent and Form: 145 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports and plans, 1866 - 1873 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/1 Creation dates: 1869-1873 Scope and Content Series of reports re Elsecar and Parkgate Collieries, Simon Wood Pit and Skiers Spring Ironstone mines including descriptions of working methods, pillar working and ventilation with section of seam and plan showing working methods at Simon Wood and description and plan of walling at Skiers Spring with recommendations re improved working, for Earl Fitzwilliam by Thomas G. Hurst, Thomas E. Forster and Thomas Cooper, 1869 - 1873 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/37 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Notes re Seaton Moor Colliery CUMBERLAND, including details of the lease, synopsis and sections of seams, results of trials, working and selling costs and report including the above information and recommending future work by Thomas G. Hurst, 17 April, 2 May 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/53 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Rabbit Banks, Gateshead Report re the clay drift at the Fire Brick including section of the seam, the effects of the creep and shrinkage and damages due to Dr Wood, by Thomas G. Hurst, 24 March 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/57 Scope and Content Report re the Stone Coal, Low Main and Brockwell Seams being worked at Montague Main Colliery, by Thomas G. Hurst, 13 Jan 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/61 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Report re Llanharrif Colliery Glamorgan, including synopsis of seams, description of current workings and selling prices and valuation, for John Straker Wilson Esq, 7 Sept 1867 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/65 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Report re Acomb Colliery including details of the lease of Acomb and Stublick Collieries, acreage, sections of seams, description of winding and pumping engines, recommended further workings, working charges and valuations, for William Chartres Esq, 21 April 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/76 Creation dates: 13 April 1867 Scope and Content Report re Moseley Green Forest of Dean, including Newman Shropshire, Brunswick and Wellington Collieries, including details of leases, sections of seams, amount of available coal and estimated winning costs and profits, for Messrs Gillespie, Swithinbank and Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/85 Creation dates: 2 Sept 1867 Scope and Content Report re Avon Vale Glamorganshire including details of the lease, current workings, estimated duration profits and valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/90 Creation dates: 25 July 1868 Scope and Content Report re Shop Pit, Team Colliery including current workings in the Hutton and Beaumont seams with recommendations and estimate for future work with plan showing the Beaumont and Hutton Seams with the drift between them, by T.G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/94 Scope and Content Report re Pontefract sand quarry worked by William Lindley on the Earl of Harwood's property including current workings, working costs, railway charges and recommended terms for a new lease, 28 Feb 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/97 Creation dates: 14 Nov 1871 Scope and Content Report re Greenhome Mine including the situation, difficulties of access to the Furness Railway with recommendations re the erection of a tramway and re future work and estimates of production costs and profits, by Thomas J. Bewick Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/104 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Sections of strata in the sinking of No. 3 Pit, Norley Hall Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/112 Creation dates: 14 - 15 Feb, 61 March 1867 Scope and Content Minutes re Norley Hall Colliery including descriptions of the Camell, Wigan 4' and Orell 4' seams, ventilation and current workings with report containing the above, informations and recommendations re the best method of winning and working the deep coal in the east part of the colliery, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/129-134 Creation dates: 19th C Extent and Form: 6 plans Scope and Content Of the Moseley Green Collieries, Forest of Dean - Plan showing the area of the United Collieries, boundaries marking Yorkley, Whillington, Coliford, Brazilly and Oaken Hill Coal, scale 8ch: 1", n.d. 50 x 80cm Transverse section of the United Collieries Coal, scale 100': 1", 1865. 70 x 55cm Surface plan of Wellington Colliery, showing boundaries, scale 2ch: 1", 1867. 88 x 44cm Surface plan of the Shropshire or Horse Engine Colliery, showing boundaries, scale 2ch: 1", 1867. 42 x 100cm Surface plan of Brunswick Colliery No. 1, showing boundaries, scale 2ch: 1", 1867. 46 x 92cm Surface plan of Brunswick Colliery No. 2, showing boundaries, scale 2ch: 1", 1867. 43 x 120cm Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/135-136 Creation dates: nd.[c.1868] Physical characteristics: 120 x 175cm and 55 x 93cm. Scope and Content 2 workings plans of Seaton Moor Colliery leased by the Earl of Lonsdale to Messrs Mulcaster, showing workings in the Ten Quarters, Rattler and Metal Bands, scale 44yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/137, 139, 144 Creation dates: nd.[19 [...] century] Physical characteristics: 70 x 120cm Scope and Content 3 sections of Chopwell Colliery, scales 20': 1" and 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/138 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Physical characteristics: 150 x 210cm. Scope and Content Workings plan of Ellen and Crosby Pits, Crosby, West Cumberland, marking the Maryport and Carlisle Railway and River Ellen, scale 25yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/140 Creation dates: 19th C Physical characteristics: 125 x 36cm. Scope and Content Plan and section of [a railway line] from Chopwell to the Derwent Valley Railway showing landowners, scales 1: 2,500 and 20': 1", n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/141 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Physical characteristics: 45 x 100cm. Scope and Content Section of a drift in the Beaumont Seam in the Team Colliery, scale 1ch: 1" and one sixteenth: 1' Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/142 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Physical characteristics: 51 x 110cm. Scope and Content Workings plan of Team Colliery, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/143 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Physical characteristics: 70 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan and sections of workings in the Rabbit Bank Fire Clay Drift, marking surface features including street names, scale 1ch: 1" |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12 Ruabon Colliery, Mostyn Colliery. Creation dates: 1865-1875 Extent and Form: 324 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans re Ruabon and Mostyn Collieries, Wales, 1865 - 1875 Items 1 - 174 relate to Ruabon Colliery 1869-1875 Items 192 - 244 relate to Mostyn No 1, 1851-1866 Items 262 - 279 relate to Mostyn No 2, 1850-1866 Items 334 - 374 relate to Mostyn No 3, 1850-1870 There are a series of loose plans between items 174 and 192 Pages 280-333 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/1 Creation dates: 1871 Extent and Form: 16 letters Scope and Content Between Thomas E. Forster, R.C. Webster of the Ruabon Coal Co and Walker Eddy re the lease of Hills Royalty, including lists of royalty rents payable by the Ruabon Company and neighbouring companies, 22 Sept 1870 - 12 Jan 1871 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/25 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Terms for a lease of Mr S.B. Hill's coal at Hafod-y-brock, Wrexham, for 31 years from 29 Sept 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/26 Creation dates: 9 Jan 1871 Scope and Content Section of seams at Ruabon Colliery and award of rents payable to Mr Hill Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/29 Creation dates: 1 May 1835 Scope and Content Letter from Henry Taylor enclosing points and memoranda to be considered by G.B. Forster in considering terms for a lease and possible working methods for Mostyn Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/38 Creation dates: 13 May 1875 Scope and Content Letter from Williams and James, Lincolns Inn, London, re a report on Mostyn Colliery made 1870 (not enclosed) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/39 Creation dates: 24 March 1875 Scope and Content Letter from Law, Hussey and Hulbert, Lincolns Inn, London, to Messrs Williams and James re the lease of Mostyn Estate and Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/41 Creation dates: 1874 Scope and Content Monthly wages account for Eyton Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/42 Creation dates: 1874 Scope and Content Account of average wages for Mostyn Pits Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/43 Creation dates: 1874 Scope and Content Account of numbers of men employed and wages paid at Mostyn and Eyton Pits Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/44 Creation dates: 9 Feb 1875 Scope and Content Extent and value of the area of coal and clay south of Eyton Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/45 Creation dates: nd. [1874] Scope and Content Prospectus for the Mostyn Coal and Iron Co Ltd, including list of directors and details and prospects of the properties to be leased Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/51 Creation dates: 22 June 1874 Scope and Content Contract on behalf of the Mostyn Coal and Iron Company between John Taylor and Edward Mesnard Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/53 Creation dates: 18 June 1874 Scope and Content Report re the Mostyn Coal and Iron Works including details of the lease, thickness of seams, amount of available coal, ventilation, winding and pumping engines, fire-brick manufactory and rail transport for E. Mesnard, by C. Tylden Wright Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/57 Creation dates: 19 June 1874 Scope and Content Report re the blast furnaces and plant at Mostyn, including harbour facilities, by Thomas Spencer Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/61 Creation dates: 30 Nov 1865 Physical characteristics: 45 x 42cm. Scope and Content Lease from Thomas Longueville and Edward Williams to the Ruabon Coal Company of coal mines and other minerals in the parishes of Ruabon and Wrexham, including plan showing lands leased, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/92 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Mortgage agreement for £50,000 taken out by the Ruabon Coal Co Ltd Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/94 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1869 Scope and Content Balance sheet for the Ruabon Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/96 Creation dates: 13 June 1870 Scope and Content Statement of fortnightly costs of engines and pumps at Ruabon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/99 Scope and Content Accounts for work at Harford, Gardden, No 1 and No 6 Pits, pumping, smith, carpentry, labouring, masonry, farm, coking and brickmaking work for the Ruabon Coal Co, giving names of employees, days worked, deductions and wages paid, fortnight ending 11 June 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/146 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Extracts from leases held by the Ruabon Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/149 Creation dates: Dec 1869 Scope and Content Statement of coal produced by the Ruabon Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/150 Creation dates: nd. c.[1876] Scope and Content Statement of the average production costs and selling prices for the Ruabon Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/151 Creation dates: 11 June 1870 Scope and Content Statement of costs for keeping horses for the Ruabon Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/152 Scope and Content Abstract of stores delivered, fortnight ending 11 June 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/154 Creation dates: July 1870 Scope and Content Estimate of coal remaining to work for the Ruabon Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/156 Creation dates: July 1870 Scope and Content Estimate of coal remaining to work from the Garddon Pits Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/157 Creation dates: 16 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Statement of costs and selling prices for large coal at the Old Works and Garddon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/158 Creation dates: 31 May 1870 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas Allen, Ruabon Coal Co requesting a report Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/159 Creation dates: 16 June 1870 Scope and Content Minutes re Ruabon Colliery including sections of seams, current workings, engines, abstract of working costs and coal remaining, by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/164 Creation dates: 27 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Report re Ruabon Colliery including details of leases and rents, workings in the Hafod New Winning, including sections of seams, working methods, particularly the "long-wall" system and ventilation workings in Garddon, including section of seams and working methods and workings in the original Ruabon Colliery, by Thomas E. and G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/174 Extent and Form: 4 letters Scope and Content From Thomas Allen, Ruabon Coal Co re the above report, with reply by Thomas E. Forster, 6 - 12 Sept 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/a Creation dates: nd. [1870] Physical characteristics: 94 x 127cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Yard and Wall and Bench Seams, Hafod Colliery, showing the proposed extension of the workings, coloured to show current and proposed workings, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/b Creation dates: June 1870 Physical characteristics: 158 x 180cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Main Coal Seam [Ruabon] showing the proposed winning and working of the deep coal, coloured to show current and proposed workings and land owners, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/c Creation dates: nd. [1870] Physical characteristics: 30 x 90cm. Scope and Content Section of strata in Ruabon Colliery, coloured, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/d Creation dates: nd. [1870] Physical characteristics: 60 x 230cm. Scope and Content Section of strata in the new pits at Hafod, Ruabon Colliery, coloured scales vertical 8yd: 1", Horizontal 4yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/e Creation dates: nd. [1870] Physical characteristics: 50 x 90cm. Scope and Content Sections taken through various points on plan of Wall and Bench Seam, (f below), Park, No 6 and Garddon Pits, scales, vertical 20yds: 1", horizontal, 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/f Creation dates: June 1870 Physical characteristics: 90 x 158cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Garddon Pits, Wall and Bench Seam, coloured, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/g Creation dates: July 1870 Physical characteristics: 45 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Yard Coal, coloured, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/192 Creation dates: 1 Dec 1854 Scope and Content Report re Mostyn Colliery including pumping and winding engines, details of seams, partial creep, ventilation, production costs and valuation, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/198 Creation dates: 17 Jan 1851 Scope and Content Report re ventilation and problems with fire damp and the size of pillars to be left at Mostyn, by Jos. Dickinson, Inspector of Mines, for John Davies Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/200 Creation dates: July - 4 Nov 1851 Scope and Content Report re the current state of Mostyn Colliery old workings and copy letters re various methods of extending the workings, by J[ohn] D[avies] Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/205 Creation dates: 20 Nov 1854 Scope and Content Report re Mostyn Colliery New Winning, including ventilation, description of seams, drainage and quantity of coal available, by John Davies Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/209 Creation dates: 26 March 1851 - 30 Sept 1854 Scope and Content Statement of coal produced from various seams, fortnightly Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/225 Creation dates: nd [c. 1850] Scope and Content Description of the engines at the Old and New Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/227 Creation dates: May 1849 Scope and Content Estimate of coal to be made available in the Mostyn Seams by the new shafts Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/231 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1854 Scope and Content Minutes re Mostyn Colliery New Winning including description and sections of seams, wages costs, selling prices and quantity of available coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/243 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 30 x 100cm. Scope and Content Section of the Mostyn Colliery Mine, scale 30yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/244 Creation dates: 30 June 1866 Scope and Content Report re Mostyn Colliery including details of the lease, depths of seams, coal available, description of engines, shipping and harbour facilities, production, working costs, selling prices, profits and valuation, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/262 Creation dates: 10, 27 May 1850 Scope and Content Abstracts of Mostyn Colliery leases Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/266 Creation dates: nd [c. 1850] Scope and Content Statement of coal seams found at Mostyn with descriptions and measurements Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/271 Creation dates: Dec 1865 Scope and Content Valuation of machinary at Mostyn Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/277 Creation dates: 1862 - 1865 Scope and Content Statement of working costs at Mostyn Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/279 Creation dates: 1863-1866 Scope and Content Statement of coal sold, 1863 - 1865 and current selling prices, 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/334 Creation dates: 10 May 1850 Scope and Content Lease from Hon E.M. Lloyd Mostyn to James T. Cookney Esq of Mostyn Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/363 Creation dates: 1870 Extent and Form: 2 letters Physical characteristics: 198 x 60cm. PLAN Scope and Content From Edward Preece, Portmadoc, requesting a report re the possible removal of pillars at Mostyn Colliery, and reply by Thomas E. Forster, 25, 27 May, 6 June 1870 Section of the Mostyn Pits, No 1 Engine Pit and No 2 Winding Pit, coloured, no scale, n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/364 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Minutes re sections of strata and thickness of seams at Mostyn Colliery, by Thomas E. Forster, 14, 15 July 1870 Section of the Mostyn Tunnels, coloured, scale 30yds: 1", n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/369 Creation dates: 30 July 1870 Scope and Content Report re the advisability of working the pillars at Mostyn by Thomas E and G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/372 Creation dates: 13 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Letter to E. Breese re the above report Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/373 Creation dates: 24 Oct 1870 Scope and Content Statement by Lord Mostyn to the Mostyn Coal Co re the removal of pillars Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/12/374 Creation dates: nd.[c.1870] Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Prospectus for the Mostyn Coal and Iron Co |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13 Park House, Newbiggen and Prior Hall Estates, Flimby,
Maryport Harbour, Melgramfitz, Broughton Moor, Moor Row. Creation dates: 1847-1871 Extent and Form: 336 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans re collieries in Cumberland, 1847 - 1871 Item 1 relates to Park House, Newbiggen and Prior Hall, Parishes of Torpenhow and Ireby, Cumberland 1868 Items 18-39 relate to Flimby, Cumberland 1852-1867 Item 127 relates to Maryport Harbour, Cumberland c.1867 Item 152 relates to Melgramfitz, Cumberland 1865-1868 Items 223 - 255 relate to Broughton Moor and Greysouthen Royalties, Cumberland 1867-1871 Items 296 - 382 relate to Threapethwaite Colliery and Bowthorne Estate, Cumberland 1847-1865 Items 407-416 relate to Moor Row Mines, Cumberland 1866 - 1867 Pages 172-222, 265-294, 384-406 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/1 Scope and Content Particulars of sale including schedule giving acreages and plan, marking various lots, scale 6ch: 1", to be sold 25 Jan 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/18 Physical characteristics: 52 x 58cm. Scope and Content Plan of the parish of Flimby, marking landowners and locations, with some details of sections of pits, scale 8ch: 1", based on a plan of 1839, compiled 13 March 1852 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/19 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Particulars compiled for a valuation of Flimby Colliery including abstracts of leases, sections of seams, sinking accounts, accounts of coal produced and selling prices, schedules of stock, including railways, pay bills, including lists of employees at Robin Hood and New Pits and accounts for damaged ground, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/39 Creation dates: March 1867 Scope and Content Inventory and valuation of stock Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/127 Creation dates: nd.[c.1867] Scope and Content Reports by Isaac Fletcher, Joshua Mulcaster and T. Walker re Maryport Harbour including useage, development of surrounding collieries and possible extensions to the harbour, with estimate of the produce of the Cumberland Coalfield north and south of Maryport Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/152 Creation dates: 1865-1868 Scope and Content General balance sheets for Melgramfitz Colliery for half years ending 30 Sept 1865 - 28 March 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/223 Scope and Content Abstract of leases between Lord Leconfield, the Representatives of John Harris, dec. and Messrs Fletcher re the Broughton Moor and Greysouthen Royalties for 31 years from 1 July 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/229 Creation dates: Aug 1871 Scope and Content Inventory of stock at Broughton Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/236 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Inventory of materials at Broughton Moor Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/240 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Account with the Maryport and Carlisle Railway and for damaged land Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/241 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Account of sundries and summary of costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/242 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1870] Scope and Content Section of strata from Henry Pit, Broughton Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/244 Creation dates: 6 Aug 1870 - 5 Aug 1871 Scope and Content Fortnightly balance sheets for Bertha Pit, Broughton Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/248 Creation dates: 1868 - 1870 Scope and Content Rental for Broughton Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/249 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Account of costs for horse-keeping, Broughton Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/250 Creation dates: Aug 1871 Scope and Content Estimate of coal available at Broughton Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/253 Creation dates: 1868 - 1871 Scope and Content Statement of selling prices for Broughton Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/254 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Valuation of the landlords interest in 33 acres of freehold coal, belonging to Lord Leconfield and John Harris Esq Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/255 Creation dates: Aug 1871 Scope and Content Report re Broughton Moor Colliery including details of the lease, synopsis of seams, current workings, available coal, estimated profits and valuation, by Thomas E. Forster for W.B. Gordon Esq Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/296 Creation dates: 1847-1865 Scope and Content Threapthwaite Colliery annual balance sheets, 31 March 1847 - 31 Dec 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/377 Scope and Content Abstract of a lease from the Earl of Lonsdale to Gilfred William Hartley, Thomas Ainsworth and George Pew, of coal under the Bowthorne Estate for 14 years from 31 Dec 1858 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/379 Creation dates: 9 March 1866 Scope and Content Valuation of Threapthwaite Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/382 Creation dates: 21 March 1866 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas Ainsworth at Cleator Moor, enclosing an account of coal produced from Lord Lonsdale's Royalty and brought to bank through Mr Hartley's property Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/407 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Report re Moor Row Mines particularly re problems caused by the removal of pillars contrary to the terms of the lease which proved detrimental to future workings. Including correspondence with James Davidson 1866 - 1867, by George Dixon, 8 May 1867 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/13/416 Extent and Form: 2 plans Physical characteristics: 60 x 78cm. Scope and Content Of the workings at Moor Row referred to in the above report, coloured, scale 2ch: 1", 9 May 1866 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14 Morfa Colliery, Dee Bank, Ferndale Explosion, Oak Pits
Colliery, Mold, Kenyon, Bryn-yr-Owen. Creation dates: 1859-1868 Extent and Form: 147 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans re collieries in Wales, 1859 - 1868 Items 1-23 relate to Morfa Colliery, Swansea, Glamorgan 1868 Item 71 relates to Dee Bank Colliery 1859 Items 81 - 115 relate to Ferndale Explosion, Pontypridd, Glamorgan 1867-1878 Items 153-187 relate to Oak Pits Colliery, Mold, Flintshire 1868 Items 225-245 relate to Kenyon Colliery, Ruabon, Derbyshire 1863-1867 Item 269 relates to Bryn-YR-Owen, Wrexham 1866 Items 285 - 287 are plans relating to Mold, Flintshire Pages 24-70, 116-152, 188-224, 246-268, 276-284 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/1 Creation dates: 11 - 25 Feb 1868 Extent and Form: 3 letters Scope and Content From Vivian and Sons to Thomas E. Forster arranging for an inspection and report by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/3 Creation dates: 15 Jan 1868 Scope and Content Report criticising ventilation, care of safety lamps and timbering, by Thomas E. Wales, Government Inspector Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/4 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Notes re measurement of ventilation, colliery discipline, particularly re lamps and timbering, 27 Feb, 5 March 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/7 Creation dates: March 1868 Scope and Content Report based on the notes re above and recommending a new winning to reduce costs and improve ventilation, by Thomas E. and G.B.Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/13 Creation dates: 1866 Physical characteristics: 100 x 110cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Morfa area showing Goytre Old Colliery Workings, Morfa Colliery Railway and boundaries, by J. Gray, scale 8ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/15 Creation dates: nd. [C.1870] Physical characteristics: 29 x 43cm. Scope and Content Section of strata in the South Crop Coal Veins, scale 40': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/17 Creation dates: nd.[C.1870] Physical characteristics: 38 x 114cm. Scope and Content Section of the Grange and Abbot Pits marking the 9 Feet and Cribbar Fawr Vein and ventilation procedure, scale 40yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/19 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 30 x 70cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings (unspecified), scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/21 Creation dates: nd.[c.1870] Physical characteristics: 42 x 105cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Cribbar Fawr Vein from Abbot Pit, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/23 Creation dates: nd. [c.1870] Physical characteristics: 58 x 97cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the 9ft Vein from Grange Pit, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/71 Creation dates: 24 June 1859 Scope and Content Report re the best method of winning a new tract of coal at Dee Bank by opening out old pits, for Messrs Haworth, Thompson and Co, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/81 Creation dates: 9 - 18 Dec 1867 Scope and Content Series of newspaper cuttings reporting on the proceedings of the inquest on the Ferndale Explosion Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/91 Creation dates: 20 Nov - 5 Dec 1867 Extent and Form: 6 letters Scope and Content From D. Davis, Aberdare, and William Adams, Cardiff, to Thomas E. Forster requesting an inspection of the colliery after the explosion, (original letters) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/96 Creation dates: 27 Nov 1867 Scope and Content Letter from Joseph Smith at Sheffield to Thomas E. Forster requesting a reference to support his application for the post of viewer at Ferndale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/99 Creation dates: nd. [c.1870] Extent and Form: 2 copies Physical characteristics: 30 x 35cm. Scope and Content Plan of part of the workings [at Ferndale] showing ventilation currents, scale 1ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/103 Creation dates: nd. [1867] Physical characteristics: 88 x 88cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings [Ferndale], no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/105 Creation dates: 1867 Physical characteristics: 86 x 110cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Four Feet Seam, Ferndale Colliery, when the explosion occurred on 8 Nov 1867, with reference showing the location of the bodies, air courses, doors and working places, coloured, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/107 Creation dates: 1866 Extent and Form: 24 pp Physical characteristics: Printed pamphlet Language: eng wel Scope and Content Rules and Regulations to be Observed by Owners, Agents, Workmen and All Others Employed in or about Collieries of Mr David Davis Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/108 Creation dates: 24 Dec 1867 Scope and Content Letter from D. Davis to Thomas E. Forster re the verdict on the Ferndale inquest Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/109 Creation dates: 11 Dec 1867 Scope and Content Minutes of an inspection of Ferndale after the explosion, by [G.B.] Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/113 Creation dates: 1868 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From Lewis Davis, Cardiff to Thomas E. Forster, re the expected life of fire bars in ventilating furnaces, 18, 24 Jan 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/115 Creation dates: 6 March 1868 Scope and Content Letter from D. Davis, Aberdare, to Thomas E. Forster re expenses for reports Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/153 Creation dates: 31 March 1868 Scope and Content Report including details of tenure, synopsis of seams, state of the engines and surface machinary, criticism of the use of naked lights, recommendations re improved ventilation, description of working methods and future prospects with recommendations re future workings, including new sinkings and the erection of a new winding engine, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/166 Extent and Form: 8 pp Scope and Content Printed copy of the above report Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/167 Creation dates: 19 March 1868 Scope and Content Minutes for the above report by Thomas Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/173 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Scope and Content Statement of freehold and leasehold properties comprising the Broncoed Estate giving field names, acreages and details of leases Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/185 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Physical characteristics: 54 x 72cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the relative position of the Broncoed Bromfield Collieries with the probable course of the faults as proved in the Holain Coal Workings, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/187 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Scope and Content Section of seams on the high and low side of the fault at Bromfield and Oak Pits Collieries, longitudinal scale 1ch: 1", vertical scale 40ft: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/225 Creation dates: 1863 Scope and Content Prospectus for the proposed formation of a company to work the colliery including reports on the situation and prospects by Messrs Bond and Sons, Mining Engineers, Nottingham, S. Scott, viewer for Greenwich Hospital Estates, and Edward Jones, Royalty Surveyor for Sir Watkyn Wynn Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/231 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1865] Scope and Content Section of No 1 and No 2 Pits, Kenyon Colliery and the New British Iron Company's Pit, Ruabon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/240 Creation dates: 16 March 1867 Scope and Content Report re prospects for Kenyon Colliery including description of seams and workings in adjoining collieries and probable duration, valuation and estimate of working costs, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/245 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 46 x 33cm. Scope and Content Plan of Kenyon Colliery showing workings in the Gate Pit, scale 2ch: 1" coloured Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/269 Creation dates: 24 March 1866 Scope and Content Report including extent of the Royalty details of the lease, description of the seams and engines, recommendations as to future sinkings and drainage, probable duration and profit and valuation, by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/285 Creation dates: nd. [c.1867] Physical characteristics: 48 x 56cm. Scope and Content Plan of the surface of estates near Mold, Flintshire under which coal mines belong to the Broncoed Colliery Co Ltd, showing surrounding owners, pits, water levels and proposed railways, coloured, scale 5ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/286 Creation dates: nd. [c.1868] Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/14/185 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/14/287 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1868] Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/14/187 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15 Helmington Hall Royalty Valuation. Creation dates: 1853-1860 Extent and Form: 73 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original letters and papers re coal under the Helmington Estate, particularly valuations for a case in Chancery between Straker and Love v. Hamilton, Spencer and others, 1835 - 1860 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/1-16 Creation dates: 1859-1860 Scope and Content Letters from George Gibson, 19 Gracechurch, London, to Thomas E. Forster, copy letter from Thomas Forster, letter from Thomas Bradley to George Gibson and calculations re the valuation of Helmington Estates and Coal Maines, particularly the interests of Mrs Spencer produced for the case of Straker and Love, Hamilton Spencer and others 17 June 1859 - 20 Feb 1860 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/17-23 Extent and Form: 6 letters, 1 telegram Scope and Content From John Marley at Darlington re damage to buildings at Helmington, 14 Dec 1855 - 4 April 1856 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/24 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1855] Physical characteristics: 60 x 76cm. Scope and Content Plan of Helmington Hall Estate, parishes of Brancepeth and St. Andrew Auckland, giving field names, total acreage and lines of proposed railway and railway in the process of construction, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/25-35 Creation dates: 1856-1858 Extent and Form: 11 LETTERS Scope and Content 9 letters from John Marley at Darlington and 2 letters from H.S. Stobart to John Marley re the best location for sinking a pit at Helmington and arrangements for visits by Thomas Forster, 19 April 1856 - 2 Sept 1858 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/36 Creation dates: 13 Feb 1855 Scope and Content Letter from William Mickle, Bishop Auckland re information from the tithe plan re Helmington Estates Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/37-41 Creation dates: 11 Jan 1854 - 19 July 1856 Extent and Form: 5 letters Scope and Content From Straker and Love, Brancepeth and Bitchburn Wallsend Colliery Office, re Helmington including the valuation of Mr Spencer's life interest Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/42-44 Creation dates: 21 May - 8 Oct 1853 Extent and Form: 3 LETTERS Scope and Content 2 letters from and 1 letter to Henry Spencer re the lease of his colliery interests at Helmington Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/45-46, 48 Creation dates: 15 June 1841 - 18 Nov 1844 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From Ralph Walters and proposed terms for a lease of Helmington coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/47 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 37 x 50cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Helmington Estate giving field names and acreage, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/49-55 Creation dates: 26 April 1853 - 18 June 1859 Extent and Form: 7 letters Scope and Content From Ralph Walters, Newcastle, re the leasing of the Helmington coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/56-57 Creation dates: 14 May 1856 Extent and Form: 2 copies Scope and Content Letter from John Marley and Thomas E. Forster to the Trustees of Rev. R. Spencer, dec, re damage to Helmington Estate buildings by underground workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/58-61 Creation dates: 19 March - 5 April 1855 Scope and Content Valuations of Helmington coal, particularly Mr Spencer's life interest Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/62-64 Creation dates: 6 Sept 1853 Extent and Form: 3 copies Scope and Content Proposed terms for a lease of Helmington coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/65 Creation dates: April 1856 Scope and Content Valuation of Helmington Hall Estate by Thomas Bradley and Sons, Land Agents, Richmond Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/66 Creation dates: 5 July 1859 Scope and Content Draft affidavit by Thomas E. Forster re the valuation of the Helmington minerals for the case in Chancery of Straker and Love v. John Hamilton, Henry Spencer and others Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/67-72 Creation dates: nd. [c.1855] Extent and Form: 5 plans Scope and Content Of part of the Helmington Estate giving owners names, scale 5ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/15/73 Creation dates: nd.[c. 1855] Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/15/24 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16 Hunter v. North Eastern Railways Creation dates: 1873 - 1878 Extent and Form: 109 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original letters and papers re the case of J.J. Hunter Esq v. The North East Railway Co to determine compensation due or damage to the Brick and Tile Manufactory at Walker, 1873 - 1878 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/1-95 Creation dates: 1878 Extent and Form: 95 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and C. Martin Bell (1), Dees and Thompson (3), Thomas Gow (23), Edward Sisterson (3), Thomas Hedley (31), John J. Hunter (10), Ingledew and Daggitt (12), Richardson and Gutch (5), George Irving (6) and John Oliver (2), 17 Feb 1876 - 26 Oct 1878 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/96 Creation dates: 1876 Scope and Content Account of Messrs Hunter and Co with Thompson and Co, Engineers for taking down and repairing machinary Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/97 Creation dates: [1876] Physical characteristics: 80 x 165cm. Scope and Content Plan of lands at Walker leased by the Corporation of Newcastle to John J. Hunter, marking brick manufactory buildings, coloured, scale 32': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/98 Creation dates: [1876] Scope and Content Estimate of compensation due for land taken and severence damages at Mr Hunters Brick and Tile Manufactory at Low Walker Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/99 Creation dates: 24 July 1873 Scope and Content Estimate of the cost of moving brick-making machinary Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/100 Creation dates: 10 July 1876 Scope and Content Valuation of Mr Hunter's land, by John Lamb, Property Serveyor for the Corporation of Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/101 Creation dates: 10 July 1876 Scope and Content Notes re evidence including calculations for compensation and terms of Mr Hunter's lease with the Corporation of Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/102 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1876 Scope and Content Calculations re compensation figures Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/103 Creation dates: 1871 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content North East Railway Company's Act Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/104 Creation dates: 1 April 1873 Physical characteristics: Printed with manuscript additions. Scope and Content Notice from the North Eastern Railway Co to J.J. Hunter re the purchase of land Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/105 Creation dates: nd.[c.1873] Physical characteristics: 33 x 28cm. Scope and Content Plan of the land to be purchased by the North Eastern Railway Co, Byker, Walker and Percy Main Branch, from John Joseph Hunter, coloured tracing, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/106 Creation dates: 2 Feb 1876 Scope and Content Report and accounts for Walker Brick Yard by John M. Winter, 56 Westgate Road, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/107 Creation dates: 1873 Scope and Content Statement of the manufacture and sale of bricks and tiles at Messrs Hunter's yard Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/108 Creation dates: 1873 - 1874 Scope and Content Summary of the manufacture and sale of bricks and tiles at Messrs Hunter's showing waste Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/16/109 Creation dates: 1873 - 1874 Scope and Content Statement of the manufacture and sale of bricks at Messrs Hunters |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17 Ryhope Colliery 1876 Report Gordon Damages, Walbottle
Colliery, 1875 Union Pit Inundation of water, Deckham Hall Royalty 1877
Valuation. Creation dates: 1868-1877 Extent and Form: 67 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original correspondence, reports and plans, 1868 - 1877 Items 1 - 18 and 66-67 relate to Ryhope 1868 - 1876 Items 19-54 relate to Walbottle Colliery 1874-1877 Items 55-65 relate to Deckham Hall Colliery 1877 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/1-10 Creation dates: 4 Oct - 27 Nov 1876 Extent and Form: 10 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and William Armstrong (3) and William F. Hall (7) re arrangements for making a report Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/11 Creation dates: 4 Oct 1876 Scope and Content Report re the possibility of working the pillars with reference to similar pillar working at Tyne Main, Walker and Jarrow, by William Armstrong, G.B.Forster and John B. Simpson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/12 Creation dates: 3 Oct 1876 Scope and Content Notes for the report 11 above including sections of strata Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/13-14 Creation dates: 16 Nov, 12 Dec 1868 Scope and Content Request by John Taylor for a report re the safety of proposed workings under the sea and barriers against the workings of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, with report by T.E. and G.B. Forster, William Armstrong and James Easton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/15 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/17/12 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/16 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 110 x 170cm. Scope and Content Plan of the undersea workings from Ryhope Colliery, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/17-18 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 2 copies Physical characteristics: 86 x 90cm Scope and Content Section of a level from the South Pit to the face of the workings in the undersea coal, scales 40': 1" and 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/19-44 Creation dates: 21 Sept 1874 - 1 May 1877 Extent and Form: 26 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst (9), R.O. Lamb (1), W. Mark Pybus (5) and W.C. Robson (11) including the making of affidavits re an inundation of water Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/45 Creation dates: nd.[c.1877] Scope and Content Newspaper cutting reporting on the case of assault brought against William Barron by Thomas McGuiness, drainer at Walbottle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/46 Creation dates: 27 April 1877 Scope and Content Chemical analysis of coke by John Pattinson, Laboratory and Assay office, 7 The Side, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/47 Creation dates: 13 Dec 1875 Scope and Content Minutes of a meeting re the inundation of water in Union Pit, including section of seam, production and pumping Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/48 Creation dates: 6 Jan 1877 Scope and Content Notes re a meeting with Robson re available coal and rent Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/49 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 32 x 42cm. Scope and Content Plan of Walbottle Colliery marking pits and workings in the Engine Seam, scale 8ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/50 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 42 x 40cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Hodge Seam, Walbottle, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/51 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 60 x 95cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in Walbottle Royalty, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/52 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 68 x 72cm. Scope and Content Plan and section of land at Newburn Steelworks, scales 2ch: 1" and 20' x 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/53 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 43 x 44cm. Scope and Content Plan of Gate House Field giving area, scale 1: 25,000 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/54 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/17/51 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/55-57, 60 Creation dates: 10 - 15 Feb, 28 March 1877 Extent and Form: 3 letters Scope and Content Between James Easton and G.B. Forster re the valuation of Deckham Hall, belonging to the Mickley Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/58-59 Creation dates: 28 March 1877 Extent and Form: 2 copies Scope and Content Valuation for John Liddell Esq Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/61-62 Creation dates: 17 Feb, 12 March 1877 Scope and Content Notes re the valuation including available coal, section of seam and working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/63 Creation dates: 1869 Physical characteristics: 29 x 43cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Deckham Hall Estate marking lot numbers with reference giving acreages Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/65-65 Creation dates: 19, 28 March 1877 Scope and Content Estimates of available coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/66 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Plan of the area of the undersea coal belonging to the Commission for Woods and Forests, leased to the Ryhope Coal Co, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/17/67 Creation dates: 3 Oct 1876 Scope and Content Notes re Ryhope including air compressors, section of Maudlin Seam and pillar workings |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18 West Cumberland v. Kenyon 2. Creation dates: 1876-1880 Extent and Form: 109 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original letters and papers re the Case of Chancery of the West Cumberland Iron and Steel co v. Kenyon, re allegations of an increase in water in the mines caused by borings made by the defendents, 1876 - 1880 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/1-18 Creation dates: 16 June 1877 - 25 May 1878 Extent and Form: 18 DOCUMENTS Scope and Content 18 letters, telegrammes and papers between G.B. Forster and Thomas Bailes (1), Birchoff, Bampas and Birchoff, London (2), C.J.Groudace, Workington (5), G. Reay, West Cumberland Iron and Steel Co (1), James Spence, Clifton Colliery (9) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/19-81 Creation dates: 26 May 1877 - 30 Sept 1880 Extent and Form: 62 letters and papers Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and E. and E.L. Waugh, Solicitors Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/82 Creation dates: 1876 Scope and Content Writ of subpoena issued to George Baker Forster and Isaac Fletcher of Carlisle, M.P. to attend as witness in the case Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/83 Creation dates: 6 Aug 1877 Scope and Content Judgement in the case, including schedule of witnesses called Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/84 Creation dates: 20 Dec 1876 - 11 Aug 1877 Scope and Content Statement of coal consumed in the boiler fires at Lowther Pit, Clifton Colliery, belonging to the West Cumberland Iron and Steel Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/85 Creation dates: 20 Dec 1875 - 11 Aug 1877 Scope and Content As above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/86 Creation dates: 1875-1877 Scope and Content Statement of claims for damages caused by Kenyon and Campbell, 16 Dec 1875 - 11 Aug 1877, Nov 1877 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/87, 89 Creation dates: 1875-1877 Scope and Content Copies of NRO 3410/For/3/86 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/88 Creation dates: 1 May 1878 Scope and Content Minutes of a meeting held to settle damages Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/90-91 Creation dates: 1877 Scope and Content Copies of NRO 3410/For/3/83 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/93 Creation dates: nd. [c.1877] Scope and Content Section of strata in Harry Gill Shaft Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/94 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Section of strata from Rattler Band, Lowther Pit, Clifton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/95 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Section of strata from the Rattler Band, Melgramfitz Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/96-97 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 2 copies Scope and Content Borings at Banks Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/98 Creation dates: 15 June 1877 Scope and Content Notes re the workings at Clifton Colliery affected by the supposed excess water, including amounts pumped and section of pits in the Rattler Band and New Band Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/99 Creation dates: nd.[c.1877] Scope and Content Sections of the Stephenson and Bank boreholes Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/100 Creation dates: nd. [1876] Scope and Content Newspaper cutting re the above case Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/101 Creation dates: 1877 Scope and Content Draft evidence given by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/102 Creation dates: 19 Jan 1877 Scope and Content Report of Edward F. Boyd re the above case Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/103 Creation dates: 1877 Scope and Content Copy of 101 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/104 Creation dates: 10 Nov 1877 Scope and Content Evidence of G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/105 Creation dates: Dec 1877 Scope and Content Affidavits of the defendents and of Christopher John Crowdase, John Alexander Dixon, George Cameron Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/106 Creation dates: Jan 1878 Scope and Content Affidavit of G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/107 Creation dates: 1877 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3102 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/108 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 55 x 42cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Main Band Coal Seam at Linefitts and Lowther Pits near Greysouthen taken from Mr Boyd's report, scale 6ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/18/109 Creation dates: 30 April 1879 Scope and Content Cuttings from The Times re the above case |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19 Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Creation dates: 1878 Scope and Content Volume of bound original and copy letters, reports and evidence re the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Bill, 1876 - 1878 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/1-37 Extent and Form: 37 letters Scope and Content And telegrammes between G.B. Forster and J.S. Dodgson (1), G.H. Liddell (2), R.F. Martin (15), E.L. Waugh (12) and R. Allayne Robinson (7) re the organization of meetings to discuss the Bill, 27 March - 9 Nov 1878 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/38 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Statement that the proposed railway is unnecessary, unsigned Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/39-40 Creation dates: 2 April 1877 Scope and Content Reports re the workings in the area to be served by the railway including borings at Moresby Park Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/41 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Report re the benefits of the railway to Lord Lonsdale's coalfield between Distington and Keekle, by R.F. Martin Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/42-43 Creation dates: Feb 1878 Extent and Form: 2 copies Scope and Content Memorandum re coal near the Rowrak branch of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway, by R.F. Martin Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/44 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Rough calculations re available coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/45-47 Creation dates: 1876 Scope and Content Evidence of G.B. Forster, Robert Russel and R.F. Martin to the House of Commons Committee Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/48 Creation dates: 18 Nov 1726, 19th Cent copy Scope and Content Report re coal at Weddicar Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/52 Creation dates: 1876 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/18/45 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/53 Creation dates: 1877 Scope and Content Memorandum of Association of the Moresly Coal Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/54 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1876] Scope and Content Prospectus of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway including plan of Cumberland and Westmorland showing the existing and proposed railway lines, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/55-57 Creation dates: 1876 Scope and Content Copies and drafts of NRO 3410/For/345 - NRO 3410/For/3/47 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/58 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Proposed conditions for a lease of Distington Royalty Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/59 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Proposed conditions for a lease of Weddicar Rigg Royalty Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/60 Creation dates: 1829, 1864 Scope and Content Sections of seams and calculations re produce and rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/61 Creation dates: 16 - 17 May 1876 Scope and Content Minutes of evidence before a House of Commons Select Committee to consider Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Bill Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/62 Creation dates: 3 April 1878 Extent and Form: Pp. 1 - 66 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of evidence given before a House of Commons Select Committee re the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Bill Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/63 Creation dates: 17 March 1876 Extent and Form: Pp. 61 - 115 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of evidence as above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/64 Creation dates: 8 April 1878 Extent and Form: Pp 67 - 114 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of evidence as above, continuation of 62 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/65 Creation dates: 8 April 1878 Extent and Form: Pp. 13 - 20 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of evidence as above, speech of Mr Clark Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/66 Creation dates: 9 April 1878 Extent and Form: Pp. 115 - 145 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of evidence as above, continuation of 64 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/19/67 Creation dates: 9 April 1878 Extent and Form: Pp. 115 - 145 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of evidence as above, speeches of council, continuation of NRO 3410/For/3/19/65 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20 Spa Mine Trespass, 1883 - 1894 and Railway
Ironstone. Creation dates: 1883 - 1895 Extent and Form: 65 docs and 25pp. Scope and Content Volume of bound original letters and papers re an alledged trespass from the Spa Royalty into Skelton, near Guisborough, Yorkshire, and re claims by Messrs Gjers, Mills and Co, Ironmasters, for the Spa Mine, against the North Eastern Railway for compensation for ironstone left in the mines for the support of the railway, 1883 - 1895 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/1-62 Extent and Form: 62 letters Scope and Content Between Thomas Allison (6), Thomas Bailes (1), Arthur Beaulands (8), F. Hugh Bell and Bell Bros (3), E.B. Hamilton (6), Gjers, Mills and Co (38) and G.B. Forster re the alledged trespass, 12 Feb 1883 - 15 May 1885 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/63-64 Creation dates: nd.[c.1883] Scope and Content Calculations re the measurements of ground worked in the Spa Mine trespass Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/65 Creation dates: nd. [c.1883] Physical characteristics: 25 x 28cm. incomplete. Scope and Content Sketch plan of ? trespass area, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/66 Creation dates: nd. [c.1883] Physical characteristics: Plan difficult to use, bound folded into volume. Scope and Content Plan showing the workings in the Spa Mine and corresponding surface boundary, copy of William Beaulands Survey Plan, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/67 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 25 x 32cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the trespass from the Spa Mine into the Park Mine, marking the barrier fence, copy of Mr Lyall's, plan, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/68-98 Creation dates: 23 Dec 1889 - 3 July 1894 Extent and Form: 26 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and William Armstrong, statement of accounts, opinions and agreement 3 copies between G.B. Forster and William Armstrong re the compensation claim Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/99-108 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1893 - 20 May 1894 Extent and Form: 10 letters Scope and Content Between Thomas Bailes (2), A. Kaye Butterworth (1), Bell and Cochrane (1), William Charlton (6) and G.B. Forster re the claim for compensation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/109-193 Creation dates: 1885-1895 Extent and Form: 85 letters Scope and Content Between Messrs Gjers, Mills and Co, Ironmasters, Middlesborough, and G.B. Forster re the claim for compensations, including statements of production and details of the agreement made with William Armstrong, 27 May 1885 - 21 Jan 1895 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/194-214 Creation dates: 28 March 1892 - 19 Oct 1893 Extent and Form: 21 letters Scope and Content Between E.W. Lyall, surveyor and G.B. Forster re plans of the Spa Mine Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/215-224 Creation dates: 29 Oct 1883 - 28 Feb 1894 Extent and Form: 10 letters Scope and Content Between A.L. Steavenson (3), John Tate (7) and G.B. Forster re Spa Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/225 Creation dates: 11 Nov 1883 Scope and Content Table showing the specific gravity of samples of stone from the Spa Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/226 Creation dates: 28 May 1894 Scope and Content Statement of the basis of the settlement agreed between Mr Cooper for Gjers, Mills and Co and Mr John H. Armstrong, for the North Eastern Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/230-239, 242-257 Creation dates: 1885 - 1893 Scope and Content Calculations and statements re measurements of ironstone left for the railway and statement of costs and profits Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/240 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 25 x 40cm. Scope and Content Workings plan of the Wharton Goaf, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/20/258 Creation dates: 27 May 1892 Physical characteristics: 45 x 120cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Spa Ironstone Mine showing the pillars left for the support of the railway, with references giving measurements, scale 1ch: 1", by W. Lyall, Civil engineer, Darlington |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21 Lyde Green Minerals Arbitration Creation dates: 1884 Extent and Form: 95 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original and copy correspondence, plans and papers re the arbitration concerning the terms of the lease of the Lyde Green Minerals, Bristol Coalfields, between T. Forster Brown for Wethered, Crossham and Co and G.C. Greenwell for Sir Greville Smyth with G.B. Forster as umpire, 1874 - 1885 Items 58-82 part of original volume, pages numbered individually Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/1-44 Extent and Form: 44 letters Scope and Content Between T. Forster Brown, Cardiff (13), Dees and Thompson (8), G.C. Greenwell (19), G.C. Hewitt (2), John Murtrie (2) and G.B. Forster re the arrangements for the arbitration, 18 Feb 1884 - 9 Feb 1885 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/45 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1884] Scope and Content Notes re measurement of coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/46 Creation dates: 1872 - 1884 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and sold, Park Field Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/47-50 Creation dates: 30 Jan - 27 Aug 1877 Extent and Form: 3 letters Scope and Content Between Handel Crossham, George C. Hewitt and Thomas Dyke re problems caused by the discovery of the great fault in the Lyde Green Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/51-54 Creation dates: 1884 Scope and Content Calculations re available coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/55 Creation dates: 17 Sept 1875 Extent and Form: 67 pp Scope and Content Paper entitled The Northern End of the Bristol Coalfield by Handel Crossham, Edward Wethered and Walter Saice to be read to the British Association, extracted from the Colliery Guardian Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/56 Creation dates: 18 Aug 1874 Physical characteristics: 100 x 34cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the different properties worked at Parkfield. Colliery, coloured to show areas held by various lessees with details of leases, and coal seams [veins], scale 6ch: 1", n.d. signed Crossham Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/57 Creation dates: 18 Aug 1884 Physical characteristics: 32 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Top Vein at Parkfield Colliery, scale 2ch: 1", n.d. signed George C. Hewitt Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/58-82 Scope and Content Notes re arbitration at the Clifton Down Hotel, Bristol, including evidence of George C. Hewitt, manager Coalpit Heath and William Morgan, engineer, sections of seams, prices, produce of seams and details of leases, 19 June, 18 Aug 1884 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/85 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and sold at Coalpit Heath Collieries, 1877 - 1884. Copies of pp45, 47 - 51 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/89 Creation dates: 19 June 1884 Physical characteristics: 72 x 120cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in Coalpit Heath Collieries marking coal seams [veins], scale 6ch: 1", n.d. signed B Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/90 Creation dates: 19 June 1884 Physical characteristics: 37 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Farrington Series, Mr Anstie's survey, marking pits and coal seams [veins], no scale, signed George C. Hewitt Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/91-92 Creation dates: nd.[1884] Physical characteristics: 57 x 50cm and 43 x 90cm. Scope and Content Sections of seams in the Parkfield Colliery, scale 6ch: 1" and 60': 1", signed George C. Hewitt Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/93 Creation dates: 19 June 1884 Physical characteristics: 57 x 96cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Parkfield Colliery and Coalpit Heath Colliery marking coal seams [veins] workings in the Froglane and Dudley Pits and Downthrow Fault, scale 6ch: 1", n.d. signed George C. Hewitt Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/21/94-95 Creation dates: 1875 Scope and Content Plan of the Northern end of the Bristol Coalfield and sections of strata [to illustrate the paper NRO 3410/For/3/21/55, 1875] |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22 EHEN Iron Ore Co v. Bain & Co. Creation dates: 1884 Extent and Form: 102 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original letters, reports and plans re an arbitration by G.B. Forster re the case of the Ehen Iron Ore Co and Mr Thomas Hartley v. James Bain and Co re an action for trespass in the iron ore workings near Egremont, Cumberland, 1884 - 1885 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/1-72 Extent and Form: 72 letters Scope and Content Between James Bain & Co (5), Thomas Brown, Whitehaven (26), Brockbank and Helder, solicitors (28), Dees and Thompson (6), John Pattinson, analytical chemist (3), Henry Woolcock, mining engineer (3) and G.B. Forster, 13 March 1884 - 7 March 1885 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/73 Creation dates: 26 Aug 1884 Scope and Content Notes re workings in Ehen Pit, with sketch plans, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/74 Creation dates: 11 Aug - 9 Oct 1884 Extent and Form: 53 pp Scope and Content Notes re the evidence including fencing of the workings, working costs and wayleaves, evidence of J.D. Kendall, mining engineer, James Stout, Ehen Mines manager, William Peile, Andrew Johnson, Henry Woolcock and Henry Moore, mining engineers, Edward Pattinson, accountant and J.J. Simpson, W.B. Turner, Thomas Brown and Edward Pattern Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/75 Creation dates: 11 Oct 1884 Scope and Content Note of costs, given to Mr Thompson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/76-78 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 26 x 44cm. Scope and Content Plans of the Woodend Iron Ore, showing the boundary line laid down by the umpire, No 76 coloured to show Woolcock's and Kendal's estimates, scale 30': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/79 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Note of the umpire's decision re tonnage Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/80 Creation dates: 27 Oct 1884 Scope and Content Arbitration by G.B. Forster given in the Court of Queen's Bench Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/81, 83-84 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Rough calculations re tonnage Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/82 Creation dates: 18 Dec 1884 Scope and Content Newspaper cutting reporting on the case Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/85 Creation dates: 1884 Physical characteristics: 22 x 37cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Woodend Estate by W.H. Wright, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/87 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 25 x 30cm Scope and Content Plan of the Woodend Estate enlarged from an old estate plan, scale 1: 2,500, incomplete. Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/88 Creation dates: 3 Nov 1884 Scope and Content List of plans sent to T. Brown Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/89-92 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Statements of ore produced and sold by the Ehen Mining Co, 1878 - 1879 and Bain and Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/94 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 67 x 90cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Ehen Mining Company's mine, by Wadham, Turner and Strougiltran, mining engineers, Whitehaven, scale 30': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/95 Creation dates: Aug 1884 Physical characteristics: 44 x 100cm. Scope and Content Plan showing Messrs Bain's workings in Thomas Hartley's Royalty and the Ehen Mining Company's workings in Lord Leconfield's Royalty, giving measurements, copy of Mr Peile's plan, scale ½ch: 1", marked G.B.F, E.U.B Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/96 Creation dates: nd [1884] Physical characteristics: 44 x 50cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in Woodend No 10 Pit, giving dates of workings, scale ½ch: 1", marked G.B.F. Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/97 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1884 Physical characteristics: 24 x 30cm. Scope and Content Plan of part of the Woodend Estate, showing boundaries traced from the old estate plan and ordnance plan, endorsed "Dendal's tracing of estate plan", scale 25": 1 mile, marked G.B.F, E.U.B Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/98 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1884 Physical characteristics: 22 x 86cm. Scope and Content Plan of the southern boundary of the Woodend Estate enlarged from a copy of the estate plan, endorsed "Kendalls tracing" scale 30': 1", marked G.B.F, E.U.B Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/99 Creation dates: Sept 1884 Extent and Form: 2 plans Physical characteristics: 34 x 36cm. Scope and Content Of part of the Woodend Estate, scale 1: 2,500, surveyed W.H.W Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/100 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1884 Physical characteristics: 50 x 40cm. Scope and Content Workings plan giving measurements, no scale, marked E.U.B, G.B.F Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/101 Creation dates: 9 Aug 1884 Physical characteristics: 64 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan and sections of the Ehen Mining Co and Bain and Co's workings, scales 10': 1" and 30': 1", marked J.D. Kendall, Whitehaven Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/22/102 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1884 Physical characteristics: 77 x 90cm. Scope and Content Workings plan of No 10 Pit, Woodend Mine, with note of "boundary of Huddlestons", scale 33': 1", H. Woolcock, C.E., Whitehaven, Dec 1882, marked E.U.B. G.B.F |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23 Etherley Colliery, Surface Damages, Jackson v.
Stobart. Creation dates: 1885-1894 Extent and Form: 79 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original letters, reports and plans re an action brought by William Jackson, farmer, against Messrs Stobart and Co re claims for damages caused by subsidence at Etherley, 1885 - 1894 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/1-10, 12-58 Creation dates: 1885-1894 Extent and Form: 57 letters Scope and Content And papers of G.B. Forster including letters to and from G. Bradford (4), J.C.B. Head (2), William Lishman (3), John Marley (10), Trotter, Bruce and Trotter, solicitors (28), 22 Oct 1885 - 26 Feb 1894 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/11 Creation dates: nd. [C. 1890] Scope and Content Report re past and current workings at Etherley by William Lishman, viewer Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/59 Creation dates: 16 Feb 1894 Scope and Content Subpoena issued to G.B. Forster to attend the case in the High Court Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/60 Creation dates: [c. 1890] Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/23/11 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/61 Creation dates: 17 Oct 1885 Scope and Content Report re Etherley, particularly George and Railway Pits, including sections of seams Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/62-63 Creation dates: c. 1885 Scope and Content Evidence of John Marley and G.B. Forster re the Etherley damage Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/64 Creation dates: 28 - 29 Oct 1885 Scope and Content Evidence re damage including statements of Mr Wylde of Woodside Cottage,, R. Turnbull, W.H. Wood, J.W. Clark of Guisborough, H.T. Peirson, J. Potts, W. Lishman and G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/65 Creation dates: 14 Feb 1894 Scope and Content Minutes of a meeting between Messrs J.C.B. Hendy, W. Lishman and W. Armstrong junior re the Etherley damage Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/66-67 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1890] Scope and Content Newspaper cuttings re the trial Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/68-71 Creation dates: 1885-1894 Scope and Content Copies of NRO 3410/For/3/23/62 - NRO 3410/For/3/23/65 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/72 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1890] Physical characteristics: 33 x 28cm. Scope and Content Plan of an estate at Etherley, the property of William Jackson, coloured to show the damaged areas, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/73 Creation dates: 1892 Extent and Form: 2 plans Physical characteristics: 33 x 28cm. Scope and Content Of workings in the Brockwell and Busty Seams showing the old workings, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/74 Creation dates: nd. [c.1890] Physical characteristics: 49 x 32cm. Scope and Content Plan showing methods of pillar working at Etherley, scale 1ch: 1" and 100yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/75 Creation dates: 23 Oct 1885 Physical characteristics: 52 x 34cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Brockwell Seam, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/76 Creation dates: nd.[c.1890] Physical characteristics: 36 x 42cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the position of Turnbull's land, coloured, scale 6ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/77 Creation dates: nd.[c.1890] Physical characteristics: 55 x 46cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Brockwell Seam, coloured to show areas worked by William Lishman and by G. Bradford in 1878, scale 25": 1mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/78 Creation dates: 22 Oct 1885 Physical characteristics: 46 x 39cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Busty Seam, coloured to show the areas worked by William Lushman and by G. Bradford in 1875 and 1876, scale 25": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/23/79 Creation dates: 23 Oct 1885 Physical characteristics: 48 x 42cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Brockwell Seam prior to workings by William Lishman, scale 3ch: 1' |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/24 Hodbarrow Iron Mines Creation dates: 1886 Extent and Form: 77 docs Scope and Content Volume of bound original letters re the leasing of the Hodbarrow Iron Mines, Cumberland from Lord Lonsdale, 1885 - 1886 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/24/1-77 Creation dates: 29 Dec 1885 - 27 Sept 1886 Extent and Form: 77 letters Scope and Content Between William Armstrong (7), Thomas J. Bewick (4), John Dagliesh (30), G.H. Liddle (1), R. Allayne Robinson (28), J.B. Simpson (3), Lindsay Wood (1), Cedric Vaughan (2) and G.B. Forster including statements of terms for the lease |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25 SILKSWORTH COLLIERY, Valuation of Maling and Lacey's Coal,
Barrier Question, Lady Londonderry, Van Mine Report, Kirkleatham Ironstone
Report. Creation dates: 1887-1888 Extent and Form: 173 DOCS Scope and Content Volume of letters, plans, accounts and reports re Silksworth Colliery, Valuation of Maling and Lacey's Coal, Barrier Question, 1887, Lady Londonderry, Van Mine Report, 1888, Kirkleatham Ironstone Report, 1888 Items 1 - 51 relate to Silksworth Colliery, Valuation of Maling and Lacey's coal and Barrier Question 1887-1888 Items 52 - 111 relate to Lady Londonderry, Van Mine 1887-1891 Items 112 - 174 relate to Kirkleatham Royalty Report 1869-1888 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/1-29 Extent and Form: 29 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and V.W. Corbett, agent to Lord Londonderry (19), Fred S. Panton (4), T.O. Robson (2) and George Young (4), 1887 - 1888 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/30 Creation dates: c.1887 Scope and Content Calculations re quantity of barrier coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/31-34 Creation dates: 21 Feb 1888 Extent and Form: 4 copies Scope and Content Statement by G.B. Forster that he will act as arbibrator re the dispute over the valuation of the barrier coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/35-40, 50 Creation dates: c.1887 Extent and Form: 7 plans Scope and Content Surface and workings plans of Silksworth Colliery, marking royalty boundaries and owners, various scales Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/41-42 Creation dates: c.1887 Scope and Content Sections of strata and measurements of coal in Lacey's and Maling's Royalties Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/43 Creation dates: 25 June 1887 Scope and Content Valuation of Lacey's and Maling's coal by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/44-47, 49 Creation dates: 1887 Scope and Content Notes and calculations re amounts of coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/48 Creation dates: 27 Dec 1887 Scope and Content Report re Mr Malings barrier coal, including valuation, by T.O. Robson, agent to Mr Maling Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/51 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1887] Scope and Content List of Silksworth Royalty rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/52-101 Creation dates: 1887 - 1891 Extent and Form: 47 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and V.W. Corbett (1), R. Gillart (20), Lady Londonderry (16), W.T. Scarth (3) and W.H. Williams (7) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/85 Creation dates: 1888 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Report re the current state of the workings and future explorations and prospects, taking into account the price of lead, with covering letter by G.B. Forster for Lady Londonderry Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/96 Creation dates: 1887 Scope and Content Account of sales of lead ore from Van Mine Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/103 Creation dates: 16 Aug 1888 Scope and Content Cutting re Welsh gold mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/104 Creation dates: 1 March 1888 Scope and Content Account of lead ore sold Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/106 Creation dates: 1 March 1888 Scope and Content Report re current workings at the Van Mine including numbers of employees, by D.P. Jones for R. Gillart Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/107 Creation dates: 14 Dec 1887 Extent and Form: 4 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Report of the Van Mining Company Ltd, including capital and working accounts and balance sheet, by W.H. Williams, manager Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/108 Creation dates: 20 Dec 1887 Scope and Content Letter from Charles Clarke to R. Gillant re royalty payments Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/109 Creation dates: 1887 Scope and Content Accounts of lead and blende ore sales Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/111 Creation dates: 24, 25 Jan 1888 Extent and Form: 10 pp Scope and Content Report re the Van Mines including descriptions of shafts and levels, pumping and winding engines and dressing floors, water supply, railway communications and lead veins with sketch plan of the lode and intersecting lode, reservoir, dressing floors and catch pits, no scale and account of a visit to the mine made 24, 25 Jan 1888 and details of the lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/112-115 Creation dates: 1888 Extent and Form: 4 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Trere & Co (2) and Oliver and Sons (2) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/116-129 Creation dates: 1887 Extent and Form: 16 copy letters Scope and Content Between Oliver and Sons and George Lee Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/130 Creation dates: 30 Sept 1881 Extent and Form: 5 pp Scope and Content Copy agreement between 1. Henry Turner Newcomer of Kirkleatham, Redcar, 2, Sir Jervoise Clark Jervoise of Idsworth Horndean, Southampton and 3. Walker, Maynard and Co, re the transfer of the lease of ironstone mines at Kirkleatham to Walker, Maynard and Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/131 Creation dates: 7 Sept 1872 Extent and Form: 19 pp Scope and Content Copy agreement between Arthur Henry Newcomen and others and Edward Robson of Old Hall, Kirkleatham and others re the lease of ironstone mines at Kirkleatham Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/132-170 Scope and Content Except where otherwise specified - 34 letters between G.B. Forster and Oliver and Sons (10), James Rutherford (13), William Walker (7) and W.H. Wood (4), 1888 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/138 Creation dates: c.1888 Scope and Content Plan of the ironstone royalty marking pits and areas worked out, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/160-163 Creation dates: Late 19th century Extent and Form: 10 pp Scope and Content Boring accounts for the Kirkheatham Royalty, 1869 - 1872 and n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/25/169, 171-174 Creation dates: Late 19th century Extent and Form: 5 plans Scope and Content Surface and workings plans of the Kirkleatham Royalty marking pits, boreholes and areas worked out, plan 173 including surface levels and depths, various scales, 1876 - 1878 and n.d |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26 East Gawber Valuation Creation dates: 1887 - 1888 Extent and Form: 146 docs Scope and Content Letters, reports, plans and legal papers re the valuation of East Gawber and Wharncliffe Collieries as required by the Court of Chancery in the case of France v Clarke, 1887 - 1888 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/1-12 Extent and Form: 113 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and V.W. Corbett (6), Dibb and Clegg, Solicitors, (2), Jones, John Forster and Son, (1), Septimus Hedley, East Gowber (30), Theo. Jones, Black Dike Mill (6), Henry Lawrence (16), Alfred Rawlinson (1), Torr and Co, Solicitors (3), and Wright and Wright, Solicitors, (49), 1887 - 1888 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/113-117 Creation dates: c.1887 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Measurements and valuations of coal at East Gowber Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/118 Creation dates: June 1886 - March 1887 Extent and Form: 33 pp Scope and Content Evidence in the Court of Chancery in the case of France v Clarke re bankruptcy of the Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/119 Creation dates: 28 July 1887 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Schedule giving details and valuation of machinery at East Gawber Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/120 Creation dates: c.1887 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Sections of seams in the Barnsley Bed and estimates of the quantity of coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/121-122 Creation dates: 8 Dec 1887 Scope and Content Draft account of valuation of the colliery in Dec 1886 with covering letter from Theo B. Jones to Messrs Wright and Wright Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/123 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1888 Extent and Form: 30 pp Scope and Content Schedule of materials and stores with valuation, made 3 Sept 1887, revised Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/124 Creation dates: Oct 1886 Extent and Form: 5 pp Scope and Content Evidence of Thomas Craike in the case of France v Clarke, as 118 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/125 Creation dates: 1886 - 1887 Extent and Form: 27 pp Scope and Content Evidence in the case of France v Clarke as 118 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/126-127 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Surface plans of East Gawber referred to in the case of France v Clarke above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/128 Creation dates: 9 July 1887 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Instructions to G.B. Forster to value East Gawber Colliery in the case of France v Clarke above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/129-130 Creation dates: nd. [1887] Extent and Form: 4pp and 3pp. Scope and Content Order in Chancery for the appointment of the valuer 128 above, 13 May 1887 and proposed minutes of the order Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/131-134 Creation dates: 1884 - 1886 Extent and Form: 11 pp Scope and Content Accounts for East Gawber including general balance, revenue accounts, output, labour and materials and coal rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/136 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 102 x 102cm. Scope and Content Plan of land at East Gawber referred to in a lease of Lord Wharncliffe marking barrier, scale 4ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/137 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 102 x 102cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Barnsley Seam at East Gawber Hall and Wharncliffe Carlton Collieries, scale 4ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/138 Creation dates: 19 Dec 1887 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content List of horses above and below ground Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/139 Creation dates: 22 July 1887 Scope and Content Statement of annual minimum coal rents payable to various estates Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/140 Creation dates: 26 July 1887 Scope and Content Schedule of documents given to Mr Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/141-142 Creation dates: c.1887 Extent and Form: 2 copies Scope and Content East Gawber and Wharncliffe Carlton Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/143 Creation dates: 1884 - 1886 Scope and Content Accounts Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/144 Creation dates: 30 Sept 1887 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Particulars of information required for making a valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/26/146 Creation dates: 1872 Extent and Form: 45 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Pamphlet entitled Abstract of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872, General Rules and Special Rules... [for] East Gawber Hall Collieries, n.d |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27 Creation dates: 1885 - 1892 Extent and Form: 116 DOCS Scope and Content Volume of letters, reports and plans re Westfield Salt Valuation, Dyson's 1889, Newburn Steel Works. Report on Coal to be Left, 1889. Barrow in Furness Water Bill, 1889 Westfield Salt Valuation, Dysons, Newburn Steel Works, Barrow-in-Furness Water Bill Items 1 - 50 relate to Westfield Salt Valuation, Dysons 1885-1892 Items 51 - 77 relate to Newburn Steel Works 1889 Items 78 - 116 relate to Barrow in Furness Water Bill 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/1-2 Creation dates: 15 May 1890 Scope and Content Notes and addresses of correspondents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/3-20 Creation dates: 1890 - 1892 Extent and Form: 18 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Thomas Bailes (1) and George Dyson (17) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/21 Creation dates: c.1890 Extent and Form: 2 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Sale particulars of salt property to let at Haverton Hill, Middlesbrough Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/22-23 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 2 copies Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Handbill re the South Durham Salt Co, giving analysis of salt in comparison with Cheshre Salt Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/24 Creation dates: Feb 1885 Extent and Form: 7 pp Scope and Content Report re the salt industry on the Cheshire coast by A.L. MacDonald Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/25-46 Creation dates: 30 May - 21 Nov 1885 Scope and Content Weekly accounts re borings at Westfield, by John Vivian Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/47 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Report re borings at Westfield for George Dyson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/48 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Calculations (re amounts of salt available) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/49 Creation dates: 1885 Physical characteristics: 68 x 90cm. Scope and Content Sale plan of the Haverton Hill Estate marking salt works, scale 25": 1 mile with inset location plan, scale 1": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/50 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 75 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the area around Middlesbrough and Haverton Hall marking boreholes and distances between boreholes, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/51-74 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 22 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and M. Dodd, Walbottle Colliery (6), Mr Leadbitter (1), John B. Simpson (3) and John Spencer, Newburn Steel Works, (12) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/70 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 42 x 30cm. Scope and Content Plan of lands around Newburn showing the face of the Engine Seam and Brockwell Workings, scale 1: 2,500 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/75 Creation dates: 4 Jan 1889 Scope and Content Report re Walbottle Colliery including descriptions and sections of seams Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/77 Creation dates: 4 Jan 1889 Physical characteristics: 60 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan showing workings under the Newburn area with reference describing seams and workings, no scale, by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/78-96 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 19 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Ellis and Ellis, solicitors (10) and R. Allayne Robinson, Whitehaven (9) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/97-99 Creation dates: 1889 Scope and Content Reports by G.B. Forster, John Coode and Richard Pickering re the effects of applications by the Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Company and Barrow Corporation to extract water from the River Duddon, particularly in relation to shipping in the Duddon Estuary Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/100-111 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 12 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Thomas Studholme (1) and R. Allayne Robinson (9), Wilfred White (2) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/112 Creation dates: Jan 1891 Scope and Content Newspaper cuttings re the attempts to introduce the Barrow Corporation Bill, 10 July 1889 and re the Duddon Works Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/113-114 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 9 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Petitions from Sir James Lowther against the Bills 115 and 116 below Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/115 Extent and Form: 30 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Bill to Empower the Corporation of Barrow-in-Furness to make Additional Waterworks Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/27/116 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 13 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Bill for Authorising the Barrow Hematite Steel Company Ltd to obtain a Supply of Water from the River Duddon and for Other Purposes |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28 Creation dates: 1889-1890 Extent and Form: 115 DOCS Scope and Content Volume of letters, accounts and reports re Hetton Colliery Bowes Lease, 1889, Dering and North Eastern Railway, 1890, Liverton Mines Valuation, 1890, Ford Colliery Report, 1889 Hetton Colliery, Bowes Lyon Lease. Dering and North Eastern Railway. Liverton Mines Valuation. Ford Colliery Report Items 1-40 relate to Hetton Colliery, Bowes Lyon Lease 1889 Items 41-79 relate to Dering and North Eastern Railway Co. 1890 Items 82-119 relate to Liverton Mines Valuation 1890 Items 120 - 126 relate to Ford Colliery Report 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/1 Creation dates: 12 March 1889 Scope and Content Agreement to appoint G.B. Forster as umpire to settle the terms of the rent to be paid under the new lease of Hetton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/2-26 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 24 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster, John Daglish and Lindsey Wood, 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/27-37 Creation dates: 1820-1889 Scope and Content Calculations and accounts re coal prices, 1868 - 1888, including printed returns to the House of Commons re average prices, 1820 - 1885 and 1871 - 1888, 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/38-39 Creation dates: nd. [1889] Scope and Content Notes re proposed sliding scale of rents to be charged, by G.B.Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/40 Creation dates: 1868 - 1889 Scope and Content Graph showing ? coal prices Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/41-69 Creation dates: 1865, 1890 Extent and Form: 27 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Mr Bailes (2), William Cochrane (1), George S. Gibs (20), M. Murray (1) and R.P. and H. Philipson (4) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/54 Creation dates: May 1844 Extent and Form: 2 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Terms for a wayleave for the Durham and Sunderland Railway Company over lands at Haswell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/70 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 7 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Memoranda re an arbitration to settle compensation between George Edward Dering and the North Eastern Railway Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/71-72 Creation dates: 9 June 1883 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Estimate of the claims of the Earl of Carnarvon for a wayleave for the Blackwell Railway, with covering letter from C.J. Neale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/73 Creation dates: nd.[1890] Scope and Content Evidence of G.B. Forster re the arbitration Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/74 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 8 pp Scope and Content Notes and calculations re the arbitration Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/75-77 Creation dates: c.1890 Extent and Form: 3 copies Scope and Content Extract from a copy of the Haswell Lease dated 5 Nov 1839 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/78-79 Creation dates: 28 Oct 1865 Scope and Content Letter to R.P. and H. Philipson and notes re the case of N.E. Railway v Gibson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/82-84 Creation dates: 1889 Scope and Content Letter from J.G. Swan and reply by G.B. Forster including a list of items required for the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/85-89 Creation dates: 19 - 24 Dec 1889 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Particulars of the valuation including abstract of the lease, output, profits and costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/90-111 Creation dates: 1889 - 1890 Extent and Form: 20 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and J.G. Swan and Cargo Fleet Company (18) and William Walker (2) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/105 Creation dates: Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 7 pp Scope and Content Report and valuation of the Liverton Mines for the Cargo Fleet Iron Company, by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/114-116 Creation dates: 1889 Scope and Content Valuations of materials and abstracts of wage costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/118 Creation dates: 1 Jan 1890 Extent and Form: 12 pp Physical characteristics: Printed with illustrations of the works described, proprietors and engines. Scope and Content Extract from the Machinary Market entitled The Industries of Middlesborough and Stockton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/119 Creation dates: 1890 Scope and Content Draft of NRO /For/3/105 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/120 Creation dates: 29 Oct 1889 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Report by G.B. and T.E. Forster for Stephen Sanderson including details of the lease, section of seams, future prospects and output and proposal to revise the rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/121-124 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 4 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Stephen Sanderson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/125 Creation dates: [1889] Scope and Content Abstract of the Ford Colliery lease dated 15 Nov 1883 and schedule of plant and machinery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/28/126 Creation dates: 21 Oct 1889 Scope and Content Notes re the colliery including section of seam, output, selling prices, establishment, current workings and costs |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29 Knowles and Bridgewater Trustees Creation dates: 1888 - 1889 Extent and Form: 107 docs Scope and Content Volume containing letters, papers and plans re a dispute between Andrew Knowles and Co and the Duke of Bridgewater's Trustees as to whether coal in the Shuttle and Fourfeet or Crumbourke Mines is of marketable quality, submitted to the arbitration of G.B. Forster, 1888 - 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/1-71 Creation dates: 1888 - 1889 Extent and Form: 74 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Dees and Thompson (7), Elias Doring (6), Fullagar and Hulton, solicitors (28), Grundy, Kershaw and Co, solicitors (27), John Ridyard, Bridgewater Estates (4) and Snell and Co (2) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/72-74 Creation dates: 1889 Scope and Content Bills from the Queen's Hotel, Manchester Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/75 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 74 pp Scope and Content Transcripts of the evidence presented for arbitration, 22 Jan - 20 Feb 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/76 Creation dates: dated 9 July 1840, 1889 Scope and Content Extracts from a lease from Mr Fitzgerald to John Kerrick Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/77 Creation dates: 1 Jan 1881 - 30 Sept 1886 Scope and Content Table of coal produced from Pendleton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/78 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Section of coal in the Fourfeet Mine Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/79 Creation dates: 17 Nov 1886 Scope and Content Report re Pendleton Colliery, by Henry Bromall Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/80 Creation dates: Nov 1886 Scope and Content Statements showing working costs and selling prices for the Fourfeet and Albert Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/81 Creation dates: 1887 - 1888 Extent and Form: 9 pp Scope and Content Transcripts of correspondence between Mr Clifford Smith for the Bridgewater Trustees and John Knowles Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/82 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Sections of Pendleton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/83 Creation dates: 1 Sept 1881 Scope and Content Copy lease from the Bridgewater Trustees to Andrew Knowles and Sons of Pendleton, Worsley and Farnworth Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/84 Creation dates: 1889 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/29/76 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/85 Creation dates: 1888 Scope and Content Royalty rent account for Pendleton, Worsley and Farnworth Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/86 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Notes re evidence as to working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/87 Creation dates: 6 April 1888 Scope and Content Appointment of G.B. Forster as arbitrator Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/88 Creation dates: 22 - 25 March 1886 Scope and Content Report re Pendleton Collieries, by Israel Baker at the request of Andrew Knowles and Son Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/89-95 Creation dates: c.1889 Scope and Content Sections of the Pendleton and Agecroft Mines, n.d. and 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/96 Creation dates: 21 Feb 1889 Scope and Content Report re Pendleton Colliery [G.B. Forster] Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/97 Creation dates: 1888 - 1889 Extent and Form: 17 pp Physical characteristics: Printed Scope and Content Paper on the Coal Trade by John Knowles from the Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/98 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Newspaper cuttings re a shareholders meeting of Andrew Knowles & Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/99 Creation dates: 20 March 1889 Scope and Content Award of G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/29/100-107 Creation dates: 1888 - 1889 Scope and Content Surface and workings plans of the Shuttle, Fourfeet or Crumborke and Rams Mines, Pendleton Colliery, coloured to show area in dispute, various scales |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30 Mining Royalties Commission Creation dates: 1889 - 99 Extent and Form: 186 docs Scope and Content Volume containing correspondence and minutes of evidence re the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties, including the formation of a committee to represent the interests of the Mine Owners, 1889 - 1893 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/1 Creation dates: 19 Aug 1889 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Warrent appointing the Royal Commission to inquire into the subject of mining royalties Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/2-154 Creation dates: 1889 - 1893 Extent and Form: 125 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Sidney Anning (2), R.W. Corber (1), John Daglish (14), David Dale (6), Matthew R. Griffith (1), Reginald Guthrie (5), N.T. Lawrence (2), Herbert Lyon, secretary to the Commission, (61), C. Mander (2), E.G. Marshall (5), R. Martin (2), J. Moore (4), A.G.V. Pale (2), R.C. Rawlins (2), Parker Rhodes (1), R. Alleyne Robinson (9), J.B. Simpson (1), W.B. Turner (2), J.S. Wall (2) and Oswald Walmsley (10), including claims for expenses, 1889 - 1893 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/25-26 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content List of coal lessors in Northumberland and Durham Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/81 Creation dates: c.1891 Extent and Form: 11 pp Scope and Content Notes re German mining law Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/91 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 14 pp Scope and Content Notes re terms of Cumberland Coal leases Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/155-157 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Lists of owners of coal royalties in Northumberland, Durham and Cleveland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/162-169 Creation dates: c.1889 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Schedules of questions to be addressed to various colliery officers by the Commission, and list of secretaries of Mining Associations Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/172 Creation dates: 1890 Scope and Content Notes re wages paid in 1890 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/173-185 Creation dates: 1892 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Evidence to the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/30/186 Creation dates: 25 Nov 1889 Scope and Content Letter from David Dale to Herbert Lyon |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31 Royal Commission Mining Royalties 1889, Northumberland and
Durham Statistics, Report on Mining Laws of the Australasian
Colonies. Creation dates: 1889-1890 Extent and Form: 95 docs Scope and Content Volume containing reports and correspondence compiled for the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties re royalty rents in Northumberland and Durham and royalties and general mining practices in Australasian Mines, 1889 - 1890 Items 1-44 relate to Mining Royalties Commission 1889-1890 Items 45-46 relate to Mining Royalties Commission, Australasian Colonies, 1890 Items 47-54 relate to New South Wales 1889-1890 Items 55-59 relate to Victoria 1890 Items 60-65 relate to Queensland 1890 Items 66-67 relate to New Zealand 1890 Items 68-73 relate to Australasia General 1890 Items 75-95 relate to Mining Royalties Commission Correspondence 1890 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/1 Creation dates: March 1890 Extent and Form: 16 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Report of the committee for the investigation of mining rents and royalties Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/2 Creation dates: 9 Nov 1889 Scope and Content Letter from Oswald Walmesley to E. Gleadowe Marshall Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/3 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 2 copies, 3pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Queries to the committee of royalties commission re royalty rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/4 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Table of average rents Note Incomplete Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/5 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 13 pp Scope and Content Draft answers to queries from the Durham District Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/6-13 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Tables showing production and royalty and wayleave rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/14 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content List of Northumberland Royalties and owners Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/15-19 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Calculations re rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/20 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Schedule of coal and wayleave rents for Durham Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/21 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 60 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Replies to queries by the Mining Royalties Commission Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/22 Creation dates: nd.[1890] Extent and Form: 47 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Digest of replies to queries 21 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/23 Creation dates: 24 June 1890 Scope and Content Circular letter for John Daglish and J.B. Simpson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/24-43 Creation dates: July - Dec 1890 Scope and Content Correspondence of T.E. Forster (junior) with J.B. Simpson and John Daglish enclosing statements of royalty rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/31/44 Creation dates: [1889] Scope and Content Statement of information required by the Mining Royalties Commission Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/45-46 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 16 pp. and 39pp. Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Reports re mining law and practice in Australia and New Zealand, by T.E. Forster, (junior) Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/47-48 Creation dates: [1889] Scope and Content Notes of queries by the Royal Commission Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/49-52 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 4 letters Scope and Content Between T.E. Forster (junior) and Henry Trenchard (1) and Oswald Walmesley (3) reporting re mines in N.S.W Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/53 Creation dates: 1890 Scope and Content List of southern collieries and notes re royalties Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/54 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 5 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Synopsis of the Amending Land Bill Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/55-56 Creation dates: 1890 Scope and Content Notes re mines in the Melbourne Districts including the history of the Ballarat Mines and the Sandhurst District Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/57 Creation dates: 17 March 1890 Scope and Content Letter from Charles Stewart, Inspector of Mines Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/58 Creation dates: nd. [1890] Scope and Content Note re lease regulations in Victoria Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/59 Creation dates: 19 March 1890 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Letter from T.E. Forster (junior) to Oswald Walmesley re mining in Victoria Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/60 Creation dates: nd. [post 1874] Scope and Content Notes re the Gold Fields Act, 1874 and re gold mining leases Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/61-62 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From William Fryer, Brisbane re Queensland mining Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/63 Creation dates: nd. [c. 1890] Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Proforma for application for a licence to prospect Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/65 Creation dates: 28 June 1890 Scope and Content Letter to Oswald Walmesley re Queensland mining Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/66-67 Creation dates: March - April 1890 Scope and Content Letter from T.E. Forster to the New Zealand Mines Dept re mining law with reply Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/68 Creation dates: 1884 - 1889 Scope and Content Schedule of Acts re mining Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/69-72 Creation dates: nd.[1890] Scope and Content Notes re leases and value of minerals raised Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/73 Creation dates: 3 June 1890 Extent and Form: 12 pp Scope and Content Report re mining in Australia including metalliferous and coal mining Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/75-92 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 18 letters Scope and Content Between T.E. Forster (junior) and Oswald Walmesley (15), E. Gledowe Marshall (1), Richard Rawlins (2) Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/94 Creation dates: nd.[1890] Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Queries from the Royal Commission re foreign mines Reference: NRO 3410/3/31/95 Creation dates: nd.[1890] Extent and Form: 18 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Replies to queries re foreign and colonial mines |
Reference: NRO 3410/3/32 Springwell Hall Damages, 1891, Bagworth Royalty, Lord
Brookes, 1889. Creation dates: 1889-1891 Extent and Form: 100 DOCS Scope and Content Letters and papers re a dispute between Joseph H. Love of Springwell Hall and the Framwellgate Coal Co, agent John Shiel and Durham Main Colliery Owners, agent William Lishman, re damage alledged to have been done to the hall by colliery workings, submitted to the arbitration of G.B. Forster, 1891. Also Lord Brook's Coal Royalty, Bagworth, Leicestershire, 1889 Items 1 - 70 relate to Springwell Hall Damages 1891 Items 71 - 100 relate to Lord Brook's Coal Royalty, Bagworth, Leicestershire, 1889 Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/1-52 Creation dates: 1891 Extent and Form: 52 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Dees and Thompson (2), W. Lisham (8), Philipson, Cooper and Goodger (3), J & R.D. Proud, solicitors (6), Jos Potts (1), John Shiel (12) and W.O. Wood (20) Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/53-55 Creation dates: nd. [1891] Scope and Content Notes re coal remaining under Springwell Hall by T. Bailes and depreciation of the property Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/56 Creation dates: 1891 Scope and Content Index to NRO 3410/FOR/3/32/57 Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/57 Creation dates: 1891 Extent and Form: 88 pp Scope and Content Transcripts of the evidence presented to arbitration Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/58 Creation dates: nd. [1891] Extent and Form: 14 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Transcripts of correspondence between Messrs Shiel and Wood and of evidence re the workings and the damage to Springwell Hall Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/59-60, 64-65 Creation dates: 1891 Scope and Content Notes and transcripts of evidence Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/61-62 Creation dates: 14 Jan 1891 Extent and Form: 12 pp Scope and Content Estimates of the cost of repairing the damage Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/66-70 Creation dates: [1891] Scope and Content Plans showing workings in the Hutton and Busty Seams, Framwellgate Colliery, under Springwell Hall, various scales Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/71-97 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 25 letters Scope and Content Between G.B.Forster and Lord Brooke (3) and J. Povey-Harper, agent to Lord Brooke, (22) Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/80 Creation dates: Sept 1889 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Report re Lady Brooke's Royalty at Bagworth, Leicestershire, including extent of the royalty, communications, section of seams, rents and available coal Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/98 Creation dates: 17 Oct 1889 Scope and Content Information given by J. Povey-Harper re the royalty Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/99 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Sections of strata at Bagworth Reference: NRO 3410/3/32/100 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 73 x 53cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Bagworth Estate marking collieries, railways and level line, scale 6": 1 mile |
Reference: NRO 3410/3/33 Phillips v Homfrey, Bedwelty Colliery Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 240pp and 1 plan. Scope and Content Volume containing transcripts of court proceedings of the case in the High Court of Chancery of Phillips v Homfrey re a trespass at Bedwelty Colliery, Wales, including reports by George Baker Forster re quantities available and compensation with comments by Mr Forster Brown, 1889 |
Reference: NRO 3410/3/34 Ushaw Moor and Hill Top Collieries Arbitration Co
Durham Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 135 docs Scope and Content Volume of legal papers, correspondence, reports and plans re a dispute between Rev Charles Gillow, Rev William Wrennall and Rev Thomas Croskell and Henry Chaytor re the working of coal under Ushaw College with reference of the case to the arbitration of George Baker Forster, 1889 - 1890 Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/1-98 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 93 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and William Cochrane (2), Dees and Thompson (8), Alfred S. Dinning (2), William Hill (32), Roger Holliday (2), William Lishman (2), Messrs Lisle and Proud (10), T. Taylor Smith (25) and Percy Strzelecki (10), 1890 Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/99 Creation dates: nd. [1890] Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Copy of the award of the umpire, including valuation of the damage Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/100 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 39 pp Scope and Content Notes re the proceedings of the arbitration Jan - Feb 1890 Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/101 Creation dates: 31 Jan 1890 Extent and Form: 16 pp Scope and Content Transcript of the proceedings of the arbitration, evidence of Mr Dinning, James Ray and Mr Fleming Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/102 Creation dates: 13 Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 53 pp Scope and Content As above, evidence of Mr Dinning, Mr Fleming, Mr Pallister, William Dixon, Francis Coulson, Roger Holliday and Peter Lonsdale and valuation of damages Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/103 Creation dates: 14 Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 49 pp Scope and Content As above, evidence of William Cochrane, Peter Londsdale, George Robson, Mr Pallister and Thomas Taylor Smith Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/104 Creation dates: 27 Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 30 pp Scope and Content As above, evidence of William Cochrane and Thomas Taylor Smith Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/105 Creation dates: 28 Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 50 pp Scope and Content As above, evidence of H.T. Pierson, William Lishman, Thomas Douglas Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/106 Creation dates: 13 March 1890 Extent and Form: 35 pp Scope and Content As above, evidence of William Hill Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/107 Creation dates: 14 Feb 1890 Physical characteristics: 28 x 28cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the workings [under Ushaw Moor], scale 2ch: 1", noted by George Baker Forster Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/108 Creation dates: 21 June 1890 Extent and Form: 12 pp Scope and Content Draft award by George Baker Forster re the arbitrations Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/109 Creation dates: [1890] Physical characteristics: 43 x 35cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Busty Seam, Ushaw Moor Colliery, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/110 Creation dates: 13 Feb 1890 Physical characteristics: 25 x 50cm. Scope and Content Section of the road from Hill Top to Ushaw Colliery, scales 60': 1" by William Dixon, surveyor Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/111 Creation dates: c.1890 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/3/34/99 with alterations Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/112 Creation dates: 1890 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 34103/34/107 Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/113 Creation dates: [1890] Extent and Form: 20 pp Scope and Content Notes re calculations of damages Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/114 Creation dates: 22 Feb 1890 Physical characteristics: 30 x 36cm. Scope and Content Plan of Hill Top and Finnings, no scale, G.B.F Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/115 Creation dates: [1890] Scope and Content Note of points to be raised in deciding the award [1890] Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/116 Creation dates: [1890] Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Analysis of questions put to G.B. Forster [1890] Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/117-118 Creation dates: [Feb 1890] Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Statements of claims for compensation for damage Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/119 Creation dates: 3 May 1890 Scope and Content Notes from Thomas Taylor Smith re measurements of barriers Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/120 Creation dates: [1890] Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Answers to queries ( ? 116 above) Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/121 Creation dates: 18 June 1888 Scope and Content Estimate of the cost of repairing the shaft Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/122 Creation dates: 13 March 1890 Scope and Content Notes re Mr Smith's and Mr Hill's addresses Reference: NRO 3410/3/34/123 Creation dates: 16 April 1890 Scope and Content Notes re a visit to Ushaw Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/34/124 Creation dates: 20 June 1888 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas Taylor Smith to Henry Chaytor re Hill Top Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/34/125 Creation dates: 13 March 1890 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Summary of the claim for damages Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/34/126 Creation dates: 18 June 1889 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Report re Hill Top Colliery by F. Coulson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/34/127 Creation dates: 14 Feb 1890 Scope and Content Details of the consumption of water at Ushaw College Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/34/128-130 Creation dates: Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 9 pp Scope and Content Notes and claims re damages by Roger Holliday, F. Coulson, Peter Lonsdale and William Cochrane Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/34/131-134 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 4 plans Scope and Content Of workings under Ushaw Moor, various scales Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/34/135 Creation dates: 22 Nov 1889 Extent and Form: 12 pp Scope and Content Agreement by Charles Gillow, William Wrennall and Thomas Croskell to submit the award to the arbitration of George Baker Forster |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35 Darrington Estate Report, 1890, Acton Estate Report,
1890. Creation dates: 1876 - 1890 Extent and Form: 108 DOCS Scope and Content Volume containing letters and papers re the possibility of mining coal in the Darrington Estate, Pontefract, Yorkshire 1890. Also, coal workings in Acton Royalty near Wrexham, Wales 1876-1890 Items 1 - 49 relate to Darrington Estate, Yorkshire Items 50 - 112 relate to Acton Royalty report Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/1-42 Creation dates: 1890 Extent and Form: 41 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Mr Bailes (1), W. Garforth (5), A. Grant Meek (25), Henry Poskitt (1), George Southern (3), E. Stanford (1), and John Vivian, Vivian's Boring Co (6) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/43 Creation dates: nd. [c.1890] Scope and Content Section of strata at Nostell Colliery, scale 50': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/44 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Plan of the Pontefract area marking Darrington Royalty, scale 1 Mile: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/45 Creation dates: 12 June 1890 Scope and Content Notes for a report re the Darrington Estate including descriptions of the Prince of Wales Colliery, Featherstone Manor Colliery, Snydale Colliery and results of sinkings at Sharlston, Glass Houghton, Wheldale, Fryston, Hemsworth and South Kirby Collieries, by Thomas Bailes Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/46-47 Creation dates: 20 June 1890 Scope and Content Newspaper cutting re developments in the Yorkshire Coalfield, 19 June 1890, with covering letter from W.E. Garforth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/48 Creation dates: 11 June 1890 Scope and Content Letter from Greaves and Son to W.E. Garforth re depths of pits as listed in the notes 45 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/49 Creation dates: Feb 1891 Scope and Content Areas of detatched plots at Darrington Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/50-104 Creation dates: 1889 - 1890 Extent and Form: 51 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Sir Robert Cunliffe, including detailed reports re the Acton and Wrexham Royalties, with sections of seams, availability of coal and proposed terms for a lease (19), Henry Dennis (5), Nathan Griffiths (8), Thomas G. Hurst (2), Charles Thom (4), Townsend and Barker (1), R.J. Whickham (9) and J.C. Vivian (5) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/105 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Notes and the possible problems with water in the Acton Royalty Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/106 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 50 x 47cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Acton Estate and the area on the east side of the dip fault, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/107 Creation dates: 30 Dec 1876 - 17 March 1877 Extent and Form: 13 pp Scope and Content Reports re the interpretation of the lease of the Acton Estate and the lessees problems with finding and working coal and their obligations, by William Armstrong Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/108 Creation dates: 30 April 1877 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Letter from Jacob Higson to Sir Robert Cunliffe re the interpretation of the lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/109 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 60 x 88cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in Wrexham and Acton Collieries, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/110 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 38 x 120cm. Scope and Content Section of a driving through the Acton Fault, scale 10': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/111 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Section of strata in Wrexham and Acton Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/35/112 Creation dates: 12 Dec 1889 Extent and Form: 8 pp Scope and Content Report re Wrexham Colliery including description of faults, working method, section of seams and terms for a lease |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36 Whitehaven Colliery Wages Reference, 1890, Lints Colliery
Arbitration, 1889. Creation dates: 1889-1890 Extent and Form: 98 docs Scope and Content Volume containing letters and papers re a dispute re levels of wages paid at the Whitehaven Collieries, submitted to arbitration of G.B. Forster 1889-1890. Also, re a dispute over compensation to be paid to Messrs Laycock for damage caused by the Lintz Colliery Company, submitted to arbitration of G.B. Forster and Thomas Gow, 1889 Items 1 - 75 relate to Whitehaven Colliery Items 76 - 98 relate to Lintz Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/1-64 Creation dates: 1889 - 1890 Extent and Form: 60 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Jonathan Hyslop (2), J.D. Kendall (5), Andrew Sharp (5) and the Whitehaven Colliery Co (48), 1889 - 1890 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/9 Creation dates: 18 Jan 1890 Scope and Content List of employees and wages paid at Wellington Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/11 Creation dates: 28 Jan 1890 Scope and Content Section of Main and Bannock Seams at Croft Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/15 Creation dates: 4 Feb 1890 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Statement re the results of the arbitration by G.B. Forster and J.D. Kendall Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/65 Creation dates: 26 Dec 1889 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Agreement between the Whitehaven Colliery Company and their employees re wages Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/66 Creation dates: 23 Jan 1890 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Sections of seams at Whitehaven Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/67 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Calculations re ? production Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/68-71 Creation dates: 1889 - 1890 Extent and Form: 8 pp Scope and Content Statements of the situation at Croft, Henry Wellington Pits Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/72 Creation dates: Jan - Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 21 pp Scope and Content Transcripts of evidence given before the arbitration Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/73 Creation dates: 4 Feb 1890 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Award by the arbitrators G.B. Forster and J.D. Kendall Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/74-75 Creation dates: Dec 1889 Scope and Content Newspaper cuttings re the dispute Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/76-89 Creation dates: 1889 Extent and Form: 16 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and R.W. Cooper (12) and Thomas Gow (4) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/91 Creation dates: 6 April 1889 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Appointment of G.B. Forster and Thomas Gow as arbitrators Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/92-93 Creation dates: 27 - 30 April 1888 Extent and Form: 8 pp Scope and Content Estimate of the cost of the repairs required to the colliery buildings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/94 Creation dates: 6 July 1888 Scope and Content Description and estimate of repair costs of damage Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/95 Creation dates: 24 May 1888 Scope and Content Summary of repair costs by Joseph Ridley and Matthew Howey Wells, builders Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/96 Creation dates: 23 May 1888 Extent and Form: 8 pp Scope and Content Estimate of repair costs for damaged buildings on Laycock's Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/97 Creation dates: 2 April 1855 Extent and Form: 32 pp Scope and Content Copy lease from Messrs Laycock to Messrs Gooch and Prior of coal mines under the Lintz Hall Estate for 42 years from 13 May 1854, including plan of the estate, scale 8ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/36/98 Creation dates: nd. [1889] Scope and Content Statement of costs by the executors of the late Richard Laycock to the Lintz Colliery Company |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37 Valuation of Heworth Colliery Creation dates: 1892 Extent and Form: 31 docs Scope and Content Volume containing letters and papers re the valuation of Heworth Colliery, 1892 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/1 Creation dates: 26 Aug 1892 Extent and Form: 5 pp Scope and Content Report and valuation of the colliery by G.B. and T.E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/2 Creation dates: 1883, nd Scope and Content Abstract of the lease of the colliery dated Nov 1876 and additional deed Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/3 Creation dates: copies 17 Oct 1892 Physical characteristics: 36 x 44cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the area of the colliery lease attatched to the draft lease, marking waggonways and dyke, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/4 Creation dates: nd.[c.1889] Physical characteristics: 30 x 18cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the Heworth Waggonway and staiths, scale 25": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/5 Creation dates: 21 July 1892 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Report re Heworth Colliery including description of pits, engines, sections and descriptions of seams Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/6 Creation dates: 25 July 1892 Extent and Form: 5 pp Scope and Content Report re workings in various seams with recommendations re working methods, by T.E. Forster (junior) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/7 Creation dates: Aug 1892 Extent and Form: 9 pp Scope and Content Memoranda re the valuation including abstracts of the lease, coal reserves, sections of seams, production, workmen's houses, working costs, valuation of plant, numbers of employees and investment Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/8-9 Creation dates: July 1892 Extent and Form: 9 pp Scope and Content Calculations and measurements of remaining coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/10 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1891 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Report re workings in 1891 by John Simpson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/11 Creation dates: 1887 - 1892 Scope and Content Statement of coal available and profits and losses, 1887 - 1891, 29 Feb 1892 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/12 Creation dates: 1888-1892 Scope and Content Statement of account for Heworth Coal Company, 1888 - 1891, 17 Oct 1892 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/13-14 Creation dates: nd. [1892] Scope and Content Calculations re profits, 1887 - 1891 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/37/15-31 Creation dates: 1892 Extent and Form: 17 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and W.C. Gibson (6), John Havelook (4) and John Simpson (7) |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38 N.E.R. 1892 Bill. Creation dates: 1858-1892 Extent and Form: 30 docs Scope and Content Volume containing printed copies of parliamentary proceedings, letters and papers in the North Eastern Railway Bill, 1891 - 1892 and re agreements made with the Blyth and Tyne Railway, 1858 - 1892 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/1 Creation dates: 5 - 6 April 1892 Extent and Form: pp 43 - 56, 187 - 200, 35 - 40, 157 - 185 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of evidence before a select committee of the House of Lords Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/2 Creation dates: 29 Oct 1891 Scope and Content Letter from John Thorburn, Cowpen Coal Co to G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/3 Creation dates: 28 Oct 1891 Scope and Content Letter from George S. Gibb to the Cambois Colliery owners Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/4 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 45 x 140cm. Scope and Content Plan of the proposed diversion of the Cambois Colliery Railway, scale 1: 2500 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/5 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Notes re the proposed Cambois and North Blyth Branch Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/6 Creation dates: 2 Nov 1891 Scope and Content Letter from G.B. Forster to T.E. Forster (junior) re their attitude to the proposed N.E.R Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/7 Creation dates: Nov 1891 Scope and Content Letter from the Cambois Coal Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/8-9 Creation dates: 1892 Extent and Form: 5 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Letters from G.B. Forster to Clayton and Gibson re charges for loading and shipping coal from North Seaton, Cambois and Cowpen Collieries and re a meeting with Mr Gibb re charges, 22, 27 Feb 1892 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/10 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 30 x 39cm. Scope and Content Plan of Sleekburn Colliery showing proposed Warkworth extension, scale 6ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/11 Creation dates: 1 July 1874 Extent and Form: 6 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Counterpart lease of a wayleave over the West Sleekburn Estate from Henry, Lord Ravensworth to the Blyth and Tyne Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/12 Creation dates: 1892 Extent and Form: 9pp 2 Physical characteristics: Printed Scope and Content Petition by the Cowpen Coal Co against the N.E.R Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/13 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 9 pp Scope and Content Comparison of rates per ton charged by the Railway Company under an agreement made 1858 for North Seaton, Cambois and Ashington Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/14 Creation dates: [1892] Extent and Form: 4 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Evidence of George Baker Forster re the effects on Cowpen, Cambois, North Seaton and Ashington Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/15 Creation dates: 1892 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Copy of the North Eastern Railway Act, 55 and 56 Victoria pp 1 - 68 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/16 Creation dates: 1892 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Copy of the North Eastern Railway (Hull Docks) Act, 55 and 56 Victoria pp 1 - 14 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/17 Creation dates: 1891 - 1892 Scope and Content Account of coal sold from Cambois Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/18 Creation dates: [1892] Scope and Content Calculations of distances from Ashington, Cambois, Cowpen, Newsham and North Seaton Collieries to the staiths Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/19 Creation dates: 5 May 1866 Extent and Form: 2 copies Scope and Content Agreement for the transport of coal on the Blyth and Tyne Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/20 Creation dates: 1866 - 1869 Extent and Form: 8 letters Scope and Content Between G.B. Forster and Joseph Laycock (1), Joseph Fothergill (1), Griffith & Creighton (3), John Straker (1) and R.P. and H. Philipson (2) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/28 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Estimated costs of the Cambois Railway branch across the River Blyth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/29 Creation dates: 1869 Extent and Form: 7 pp Scope and Content Agreement for the transport of coal on the Blyth and Tyne Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/38/30 Creation dates: 20 Nov 1893 Scope and Content Newspaper cutting re the passing of the N.E.R. Act |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39 Raisby Hill, 1907. Creation dates: 1903-1907 Extent and Form: 43 docs Scope and Content Volume containing letters and papers re the valuation of the late Mr Hall's share in Raisby Hill Quarries, 1903 - 1907 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/1 Creation dates: 12 July - 15 Oct 1907 Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Diary of meetings held re the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/2-4 Creation dates: 5 Oct - 5 Dec 1907 Extent and Form: 5 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content 3 letters from T.E. Forster to Messrs Byott and Swan containing the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/5 Creation dates: (1907] Extent and Form: 2 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Details of information required for the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/6 Creation dates: lease dated 3 April 1903 Extent and Form: 3 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Abstract of a lease of limestone and quarries in the Sherburn Hospital Estate at Garmondsway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/7 Creation dates: c.1907 Physical characteristics: 45 x 45cm. Scope and Content Plan of area leased marking Hartlepool Junction Railway scale 10ch: 1", n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/8 Creation dates: 3 April 1903 Extent and Form: 25 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Copy lease by the Masters and Bretheren of Sherburn Hospital to William F. Hall of limestone and quarries in the Garmondsway Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/9 Creation dates: 27 Feb 1903 Extent and Form: 3 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Abstract of a lease of limestone on the Kelloe Estate from Lord Londonderry to William F. Hall Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/10 Creation dates: nd. [c.1907] Physical characteristics: 45 x 45cm. Scope and Content Plan of Raisby Hill limestone area, coloured to show ownership of the various farms, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/11-15 Creation dates: c.1907 Scope and Content Accounts of Raisby Hill Limestone Company including balance sheets, 1906 - 1907 and summaries of sales and profits, 1902 - 1906 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/16 Creation dates: c.1907 Scope and Content Estimate of limestone remaining Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/17 Creation dates: 1902 - 1907 Scope and Content Accounts of limestone produced and sold Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/18 Creation dates: c.1907 Extent and Form: 2 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content List of royalties in the occupation of the Raisby Hill Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/19 Creation dates: 1907 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Sections of the quarry taken July 1907 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/20 Creation dates: 1897 - 1907 Scope and Content Table showing comparative depths of borings taken Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/21 Creation dates: 1902 - 1907 Scope and Content Table of limestone and dolomite produced and sold Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/22 Creation dates: 1902 - 1906 Scope and Content Account of royalty rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/23-24 Creation dates: 16 Nov 1903 Extent and Form: 2 pp Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Analysis of limestone and dolomite, sent by W.F. Keating Stock, Assay Office, Darlington Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/25 Creation dates: Sept 1907 Physical characteristics: 40 x 85cm. Scope and Content Sketch plan of the damaged ground at Garmondsway Farm, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/26 Creation dates: Aug 1907 Physical characteristics: 30 x 150cm. Scope and Content Section of Raisby Hill Quarry, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/27 Creation dates: Aug 1907 Physical characteristics: 42 x 150cm. Scope and Content Plan and section of Raisby Hill Quarry marking haulage engine, waggon shops, limekilns and railways, scale 60': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/28 Creation dates: nd. [1907] Physical characteristics: 30 x 60cm. Scope and Content Sketch plan of areas for future work, scale 1: 2500 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/29 Creation dates: c.1907 Physical characteristics: 30 x 90cm. Scope and Content Part of O.S. 25" plan of Raisby Hill Quarry boundaries coloured marking ? boreholes Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/30 Creation dates: 12 Sept 1907 Extent and Form: 3pp. and 6pp. Physical characteristics: Typescript Scope and Content Reports re Raisby Hill Quarry including sections, description of workings and surface processes, output and costs, by Mr Allison, T.E. Forster and F.W. Wright Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/31-32 Creation dates: 1 Oct 1907 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Notes re a meeting with Mr Allison and calculations re the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/39/33 Creation dates: Sept - Oct 1907 Extent and Form: 11 letters Scope and Content Between T.E. Forster, junior, and T.S. Allison (2) and Ryott and Swan (9) |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40 Railway Papers, Brandling Junction 1 Creation dates: 1834-1843 Extent and Form: 57 docs Physical characteristics: Printed except where otherwise specified. Scope and Content Volume containing printed notices and minutes, posters and plans re the setting up and running of the Brandling Junction Railway, 1834 - 1843 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/1 Creation dates: 1834 Physical characteristics: 60 x 80cm, lithograph copy. Scope and Content Copy plan of the Brandling Junction Railway marking the towns of Newcastle, Gateshead, South Shields and Monkwearmouth, roads and railways and proposed line of new railway, proposed by Robert William Brandling, surveyed by John Bourne, scale 3": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/2 Creation dates: c.1834 Physical characteristics: 48 x 55cm. lithograph copy. Scope and Content Plan of the Brandling Junction Railway, information as 1 above, scale 2": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/3-5 Creation dates: 1835 Extent and Form: 33pp 12pp. and 18pp. Scope and Content Prospectuses for the proposed railway giving details and estimates of revenue Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/6-7 Creation dates: 1835 Scope and Content Minutes of the sub-committee and provisional committee for the establishment of the railway, 7, 14 Sept 1835, 3pp. posted to William Losh, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/8 Creation dates: 14 Sept 1835 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Prospectus for the railway including plan, scale 1 mile: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/9 Creation dates: 1835 Scope and Content Blank application for shares Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/10-56 Creation dates: 1836-1844 Physical characteristics: Printed except for item 10. Scope and Content Except where otherwise specified Notices of meetings and minutes and reports of half-yearly shareholders meetings, 20 Sept 1836 - 16 May 1844 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/13 Creation dates: nd Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Valuation of materials on the Brandling Junction Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/26, 31, 33, 36-38 Extent and Form: 9 printed posters Scope and Content Posters advertising services, including special excursions and fares on the Brandling Junction Railway, 1841 - 1846. illustrated with engravings of steam engines and carriages Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/40/57 Creation dates: nd. [c.1840] Extent and Form: 77pp. and 2 plans. Scope and Content Account of the formation of the railway, by Robert William Brandling including plans of the railway and of the proposed extension to Newcastle |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/41 Railway Papers, Brandling Juntion 2. Creation dates: 1842-1843 Extent and Form: 286 pp Physical characteristics: All printed. Scope and Content Volume containing printed reports by the Committee of Investigation into the affairs of the Brandling Junction Railway and related reports, 1842 - 1843 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/41/1 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1843 Scope and Content Statement of account for year ending 31 Dec 1843 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/41/31 Creation dates: 6 May 1842 Scope and Content Reply by the directors to the report of the investigating committee Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/41/57 Creation dates: 6 May 1842 Scope and Content Report of the Committee of Investigation, appointed at a shareholders meeting Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/41/91 Creation dates: 8 June - 29 Dec 1842 Scope and Content Evidence of persons brought before the committe, p.57 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/41/149 Creation dates: 3 March 1843 Scope and Content Capital Account prepared by the Committee of Investigation, presented 3 March 1843 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42 Railway Papers, Various. Creation dates: 1825-1844 Extent and Form: 50 DOCS Scope and Content Volume containing printed prospectuses, plans and reports re railways, harbours and bridges, 1825 - 1844. printed except where otherwise specified, many addressed to Messrs Losh and Wilson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/1 Creation dates: 10 June 1844 Scope and Content List of railway companies with information re share capital Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/2 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Newspaper cutting entitled Examples of Railway Making, discussing costs of construction Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/3 Creation dates: 24 Aug 1838 Scope and Content Invitation to William Armstrong to the opening of the Durham Junction Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/4 Creation dates: nd. 19th century] Physical characteristics: Manuscript Scope and Content Letter from W.L. [William Losh] to Mr Wilson re Mr Ewart's balloon ascent Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/5 Creation dates: 1833 Extent and Form: 3 pp Physical characteristics: Lithograph copy. Scope and Content Prospectus for the Tees, Weardale and Tyne Junction Railway, including plan, scale 12 miles: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/6 Creation dates: 1835 Physical characteristics: Lithograph copy. 52 x 40cm. Scope and Content Plan of the proposed Northumberland Railway from Newcastle to Morpeth via Cramlington, by Matthias Dunn, scale 1 mile: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/7 Creation dates: 1835 Extent and Form: 14 pp Scope and Content Prospectus of the railway 6 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/8 Creation dates: 4 May 1835 Scope and Content Circular letter from Matthias Dunn calling a meeting re the railway 6 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/9 Creation dates: 2 Dec 1836 Scope and Content Circular letter from Charles F. Davidson re the Edinburgh, Haddington and Dunbar Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/10 Creation dates: 1838 Physical characteristics: 50 x 33cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Great North Junction Railway showing the area from London to Edinburgh showing completed and proposed railways and marking the proposed railway from Newcastle to Edinburgh via Hexham and the proposed line of the coast route from Newcastle to Edinburgh, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/11 Creation dates: Dec 1838 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Prospectus for the Great North Junction Railway, 11 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/12 Creation dates: 8 Feb 1839 Scope and Content Open letter from Joshua Richardson to John Blackmore re his report on the route of the Newcastle to Edinburgh Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/13-14 Creation dates: 27 Aug 1839 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Circular letter containing resolutions of a meeting of the provisional committee of the Newcastle and Edinburgh Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/15 Creation dates: 19 Nov 1843 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Prospectus of the Scottish or Central Union Railway from Gilsland to Edinburgh including plan of the North of England and southern Scotland showing railway lines and proposed Midland, Gilsland to Edinburgh and Caledonian, Carlisle to Edinburgh lines, scale 30 miles: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/16 Creation dates: Nov 1843 Scope and Content Notice re sabboth observance on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/17 Creation dates: 23 Aug 1843 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Prospectus of the North British Railway from Edinburgh to Berwick Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/18 Creation dates: 1844 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Prospectus of the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, including plan marking the proposed line, scale 12 miles: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/19 Creation dates: Nov 1831 Physical characteristics: 45 x 52cm. Scope and Content Plan and section of the Hartlepool Railway and the extension and enlargement of Hartlepool Harbour, surveyed by J.T.W. Bell, scale 1 mile: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/20 Creation dates: 8 Dec 1831 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Prospectus for the Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/21 Creation dates: March 1832 Extent and Form: 13 pp Scope and Content Statement of reasons for the bill to improve the docks and build railways at Hartlepool, including plan of the Hartlepool Railway showing proposed extensions, scale approx 30ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/22 Creation dates: May 1832 Scope and Content Statement of the case in a dispute between Seaham Harbour v Hartlepool Harbour re the need for improvements at Hartlepool Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/23 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1832 Scope and Content Poster requesting tenders to make a cut for the Hartlepool Railway near Castle Eden Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/24 Creation dates: 25 May 1835 Scope and Content Poster giving notice of the opening of Hartlepool Harbour Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/25 Creation dates: 22 March 1837 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content List of tolls and regulations for Hartlepool Harbour Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/26 Creation dates: 12 July 1825 Extent and Form: 10 pp Scope and Content Report on a proposed suspension bridge between North and South Shields by William Chapman, including plan, scale 6ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/27 Creation dates: 15 Dec 1841 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Report re the Stockton and Darlington Railway by John Harris, Engineer, posted to Losh, Wilson and Bell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/28 Creation dates: 16 Dec 1842 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Report re the Stockton and Darlington Railway, by Samuel Barnard, posted to Losh, Wilson and Bell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/29 Creation dates: 2 Jan 1843 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Circular letter from Samuel Barnard, enclosing report by William Cubitt re the Stockton and Darlington Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/30-31 Creation dates: 1832 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Proposals and prospectus for the London and Birmingham Railway including map of England showing the proposed line and plan of the area between London and Birmingham marking the proposed line, roads and canals with table of distances, scale approx 6 miles: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/32 Creation dates: 31 Jan 1832 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Minutes of a meeting of the board of management for the London and Birmingham Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/33 Creation dates: 1 Feb 1832 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Observations on the London and Birmingham Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/34 Creation dates: 2 Sept 1825 Scope and Content Circular letter re a public meeting re the North and South Shields Bridge, 26 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/35-41 Creation dates: 27 Sept 1825 - 17 Jan 1826 Scope and Content Copy letters mainly from the Tyne Mercury re the Shields Suspension Bridge including report of Thomas Telford, engineer Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/42 Creation dates: 1 July 1844 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Statement of reasons against the proposed Government Railways Bill, posted to Thomas Wilson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/43 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Newspaper cutting re atmospheric railways Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/44 Creation dates: Nov 1838 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Prospectus of the Victoria Marine Insurance Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/45-46 Creation dates: 1838 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Circular letter and prospectus for the Tyne Dock Company including plan of proposed dock extension at Tyne Dock, surveyed by William Woods scale 8ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/47 Creation dates: 13 Jan 1838 Extent and Form: 4 pp Scope and Content Minutes of an initial meeting of the Tyne Dock Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/48 Creation dates: 3 Jan 1831 Scope and Content Prospectus for a proposed railway from Blaydon to South Shields Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/49 Creation dates: 1831 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Report re the line of the Clarence Railway by Thomas Fenwick and John Straker at the request of Edward Steel, 7, 14 May 1831 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/42/50 Creation dates: 1835 Extent and Form: 5 pp Physical characteristics: Plan 60 x 48cm. Scope and Content Prospectus for the Eastern Counties Railway from London to Ipswich, Norwich and Yarmouth, including plan of East Anglia showing the line of the railway, scale 6 mile: 1", tables of population, distances from London and travel times and costs, 26 Nov 1835 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43 Railway Papers, Newcastle and Shields. Creation dates: 1828 - 1904 Extent and Form: 18 docs Physical characteristics: All printed Scope and Content Volume containing plans, prospectuses and reports re the Newcastle and Shields Railway, 1833 - 1841, plan of the proposed Newcastle - Carlisle Railway, 1828 and timetables for electric service, 1904. most addressed to Messrs Losh and Wilson. Item 16 is loose in volume Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/1-2 Creation dates: Aug 1828 Physical characteristics: 2 sections 33 x 57cms. each. Scope and Content Plan and section of the proposed railway from Carlisle to Newcastle, coloured to show townships surveyed by T.O. Blackett and I. Studholme under the direction of Benjamin Thompson, scale 1 mile: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/3 Creation dates: 1833 Physical characteristics: 49 x 90cm. Scope and Content Plan and section of the railway from Newcastle to North Shields, coloured to show townships, by Joshua Richardson, scale 80ch: 1" with enlargements of the areas of Newcastle and North Shields Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/4-5 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Engravings of the Ouse Burn and Willington Dean viaducts Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/6 Creation dates: 1831 Extent and Form: 48 pp Scope and Content Observations on the proposed railway by Joshua Richardson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/7-8 Creation dates: 24 Oct 1834 Extent and Form: 2 DOCUMENTS Scope and Content Report and estimate of costs by John Straker, 22 Feb 1834. 2pp. with additional report, 3pp Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/9 Creation dates: nd. [1836] Scope and Content Prospectus, including plan of the proposed line, scale 1 Mile: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/10 Creation dates: 15 Aug 1836 Scope and Content Circular re interest payable on shareholdings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/11-15 Creation dates: 1838-1841 Scope and Content Directors reports, 1838, 1839, 1841 and 1841 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/16 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Statement of tolls and rates for the carriage of goods Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/17 Creation dates: 1 July 1904 Scope and Content Timetable for electric trains between Newcastle and Tynemouth from 1 July 1904 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/43/18 Creation dates: 26 March 1904 Scope and Content Notification of and timetable for electric train service from Newcastle to Benton |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44 Railway Papers, Great North of England. Creation dates: 1835-1906 Extent and Form: 64 DOCS Scope and Content Volume containing prospectuses, plans and reports re the Great North of England and Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railways, 1835 - 1844 and High Level Bridge, 1906. many addressed to Messrs Losh and Wilson Items 1 - 31 relate to Great North of England Railway Items 32 - 63 relate to Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway Item 64 relates to High Level Bridge Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/1 Creation dates: nd. [c.1835] Physical characteristics: 40 x 26cm. Scope and Content Plan showing proposed line of the railway from Newcastle to York and Leeds, by Thomas Storey, engineer, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/2 Creation dates: nd. [c.1835] Extent and Form: 3 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Proposal for a proposed central terminus for the Newcastle and Carlisle, North of England and Edinburgh Railways with plan of Newcastle showing proposed depot, scale approx 25ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/3 Creation dates: 16 Nov 1835 Physical characteristics: Printed with Manuscript notes Scope and Content Circular re meeting of interested parties Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/4 Creation dates: 1835 Extent and Form: 3 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Prospectus Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/5 Creation dates: 18 March 1836 Scope and Content Handbill re the proposals Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/6 Creation dates: 23 July 1836 Extent and Form: 7 pp Scope and Content Report by Thomas Storey re the proposed line Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/7 Creation dates: 10 -12 Aug 1836 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Resolutions of a general meeting re crossing the Tyne, with letter from Joseph Miller Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/8-10 Creation dates: 1836 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Circulars re share capital, posted to Mr Losh. Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/11 Creation dates: 19 Aug 1836 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Extract from a report by Richard Otley Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/12 Creation dates: 19 Aug 1836 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Proposals for starting work on the railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/13 Creation dates: 26 Aug 1836 Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Report by Richard Otley, with estimate of expenditure Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/14 Creation dates: 31 Aug 1836 Scope and Content Opinion re the building of a bridge over the Tyne for the railway, by George Stephenson, Nicholas Wood and Thomas Storey Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/15 Creation dates: 1 Sept 1836 Scope and Content Report re the best method of crossing the Tyne, by Thomas Storey Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/16 Creation dates: 14 Aug 1837 Extent and Form: 3 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Report of the directors to a general meeting of proprietors Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/17 Creation dates: 4 Sept 1838 Extent and Form: 3 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Minutes of a meeting of proprietors Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/18 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1840 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Circular re a call on shares Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/19-30 Creation dates: 31 March 1841 Scope and Content Newspaper cuttings re the opening of the railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/31 Creation dates: 6 Jan 1843 Extent and Form: 2 pp Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Address by the directors to the shareholders re conflicting interests of some members of the board with interests in the Stockton and Darlington Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/32 Creation dates: 11 June 1844 Scope and Content Invitation to the opening Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/33, 36 Creation dates: 13 June 1844 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Notifications to the shareholders of the Brandling Junction Railway re a special train for the opening Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/34 Creation dates: 18 June 1844 Scope and Content Poster advertising arrangements for the opening Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/35 Creation dates: 16 June 1844 Scope and Content Circular enclosing tickets for the opening dinner Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/37 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 43 x 50cm. Lithographed copy. Scope and Content Plan of a proposed new street to the High Level Bridge, Newcastle, scale 36yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/38 Creation dates: c.1844 Scope and Content Ground plan, elevation and description of the Gateshead Station, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/39-61 Creation dates: nd. [June 1844] Scope and Content Newspaper cuttings re the opening, including engraving of Gateshead Station Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/62 Creation dates: 1835 Scope and Content Copy of 4 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/63 Creation dates: 1844 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Timetable and fare table from 1 Aug 1844 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/44/64 Creation dates: 10 July 1906 Scope and Content Account of the history, design and building of the High Level Bridge, including photographs and plans of the construction, reprinted from the Railway Gazette. 25 May 1906 for the opening of the bridge |